Bogen
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: From ahd. bogo 'bow'; also linked to 'to bend'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɑɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bogen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 297K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 4.3K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 95K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bogen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,266 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boegen in BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From ahd. bogo 'bow'; also linked to 'to bend'.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bogen is read(measured from records)
Bogen is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English70%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bogen in English.
- German8.5%
From ahd. bogo 'bow'; also linked to 'to bend'.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
bow, arc, sheet
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
first/third-person plural preterite of biegen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian5.2%
definite singular of boge
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bogen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,266 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | Bogen | 30 |
| US United States | 1,120 | 1 in 297K | 1.1K | Bogen | 221 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Bogen | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Bogen | 59 |
| EG Egypt | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Bogen | 5 |
| GH Ghana | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Bogen | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 56as Boegen | 1 in 209K | 56 | Boegen | 6 |
1,266 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bogen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, definite singular of bog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, past participle of būgan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Bogenb. 1823DEGerman classical philologist and high school teacher (1823-1878)
- Albert Bogenb. 1882HUAustrian fencer (1882-1961)
- Erna Bogen-Bogátib. 1906HUHungarian fencer (1906–2002)
- Alexander Bogenb. 1916ILPolish-Israeli visual artist and activist; decorated leader of partisans during World War II (1916-2010)
- Joseph Bogenb. 1926USAmerican physician (1926-2005)
- Wolfgang Bogenb. 1928DEGerman politician
- Bjarne Bogenb. 1951NONorwegian physician, immunologist, inventor and professor
- Steffen Bogenb. 1967DEGerman art historian and university teacher
- Inger Lise Bogenb. 1976NOresearcher
- Sarah Bogenb. 1989DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bogen mean, and where does it come from?
- From ahd. bogo 'bow'; also linked to 'to bend'. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bogen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bogen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Bogen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bogen.
- Where is Bogen most common?
- Bogen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bogen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,266 people named Bogen, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bogen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bogenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bogen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.