Koen
given name · Dutch · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Koen is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Dutch and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nickname from Middle Dutch coen(e) ‘bold’, ‘daring’ or personal name Cono with the same meanKoepp ing.
- 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●
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Keng in US United States, MY Malaysia, AU Australia and 5 more, Gain in IN India, เก่ง in TH Thailand and Khen in PH Philippines.
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●
nickname from Middle Dutch coen(e) ‘bold’, ‘daring’ or personal name Cono with the same meanKoepp ing.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 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●
- Dutch42K35%
- Western Frisian35K29%
- English28K23%
- German2.2K2%
- French2.1K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | 41,700 | 35% |
| Western Frisian | 35,096 | 29% |
| English | 27,586 | 23% |
| German | 2,184 | 2% |
| French | 2,107 | 2% |
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●
Koen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, courageous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
the priest; Belgrado, Novi Sad, Buenos Aires
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Dutch, one of the many forms of Cohen.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Finnish, first-person singular present indicative of kokea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1998 | 18 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 25 |
| 2001 | 25 |
| 2002 | 62 |
| 2003 | 69 |
| 2004 | 144 |
| 2005 | 154 |
| 2006 | 233 |
| 2007 | 160 |
| 2008 | 242 |
| 2009 | 216 |
| 2010 | 213 |
| 2011 | 166 |
| 2012 | 174 |
| 2013 | 179 |
| 2014 | 215 |
| 2015 | 201 |
| 2016 | 181 |
| 2017 | 148 |
| 2018 | 161 |
| 2019 | 148 |
| 2020 | 162 |
| 2021 | 219 |
| 2022 | 310 |
| 2023 | 468 |
| 2024 | 401 |
| 2025 | 448 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1996–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Koen Geensb. 1958BEBelgian politician
- Koen De Bouwb. 1964BEBelgian actor
- Koen De Graeveb. 1972BEBelgian actor
- Koen de Kortb. 1982NLDutch cyclist
- Koen van der Biezenb. 1985NLDutch footballer
- Koen Naertb. 1989BEBelgian athletics competitor
- Koen Verweijb. 1990NLDutch speed skater
- Koen Casteelsb. 1992BEBelgian association football player (born 1992)
- Zeno Debastb. 2003BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player (born 2003)
- Koen GroeneveldNLDutch DJ and record producer
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 52 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 211 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Koen?
- We estimate roughly 92 thousand people bear Koen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Koen have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 69 thousand people bear Koen in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled KenG.
- Where is Koen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Koen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 953 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Koen compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Koen is the 130th most common given name of 58,504 given names recorded there.
- Is Koen a male or female name?
- Koen 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 Koen mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from Middle Dutch coen(e) ‘bold’, ‘daring’ or personal name Cono with the same meanKoepp ing.
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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.
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, “Koen” — the 130th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.