Khen
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Khen is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Vietnamese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: to praise, to compliment, to commend.
- NLNetherlands1 in 953◐
- BEBelgium1 in 1.4K
- USUnited States1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈92K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 220 ●
- 1 in 953 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
114K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Koen in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, NO Norway and 10 more, Keng in US United States, MY Malaysia, AU Australia and 5 more, Gain in IN India and เก่ง in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
to praise, to compliment, to commend
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 69,073 | 44K rec. | 1 in 4.8K | 69K | KenG | 220 |
| NL Netherlands | #200 | 18,129 | 15K rec. | 1 in 953 | 18K | Koen | 142 |
| MY Malaysia | #501 | 12,545 | 13K rec. | — | — | KenG | 70 |
| BE Belgium | #130 | 11,242 | 9.1K rec. | — | 74 | Koen | 132 |
| TH Thailand | — | 8,572 | 6.2K rec. | — | #845,127 | เก่ง | 124 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,726 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Khen | 45 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,390 | 5.8K rec. | — | 4 | KenG | 89 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,788 | 1.3K rec. | — | 10 | Koen | 42 |
| SG Singapore | #363 | 1,694 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | KenG | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,589 | 2.3K rec. | — | 9 | KenG | 56 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,527△ | 99 rec. | 1 in 3.6K | 3.7K | Koen | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,441△ | 84 rec. | 1 in 7.1K | 1.4K | Koen | 12 |
Roughly 69K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 4.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English5K37%
- Vietnamese1.8K13%
- Spanish1.7K13%
- Malay9307%
- Hindi8246%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,973 | 37% |
| Vietnamese | 1,821 | 13% |
| Spanish | 1,741 | 13% |
| Malay | 930 | 7% |
| Hindi | 824 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Khen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lao, |. v. discipline. 2. v: perfect. 3. v.: beat, forge. - «Bo (Thai)' v. gnash the teeth in E * anger — WJ v. forge a knife. ; (2X. /khé:ny n. arm-shield, buckler. leute 2 (2M. (Thai) n. masked actor in Thai drama. VP
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
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●
- Llywarch Henb. 534GBnot in their usual namePrince of the Brythonic kingdom of Rheged
- Harald III of Denmarkb. 1041DKnot in their usual name11th-century King of Denmark
- Józef Henb. 1923PLnot in their usual namePolish writer, screenwriter and dramaturge
- Rachel Sade Henb. 1927ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli poet
- Yona Chenb. 1941ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli scientist
- Yitzhak Henb. 1963ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian
- Ronen Chenb. 1965ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli fashion designer
- Reshef Henb. 1968ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Tal Henb. 1979ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli footballer
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 96 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Khen?
- We estimate roughly 92 thousand people bear Khen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Khen have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 69 thousand people bear Khen in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled KenG.
- Where is Khen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Khen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 953 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Khen compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Khen is the 130th most common given name of 58,504 given names recorded there.
- Is Khen a male or female name?
- Khen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Khen mean?
- Recorded meaning: to praise, to compliment, to commend
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Khen” — the 130th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.