Namen
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Namen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Belgium. It appears chiefly in English and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Will Smith, ame rikanischer Schauspieler (20./21.JI1.).
- BEBelgium1 in 925◐
- FRFrance1 in 165K
- INIndia1 in 784K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈49 ●
- Sources
- 142 ●
- 1 in 4.4M ◐
across 2 countries
8.0K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Namur in BE Belgium, FR France, US United States and 6 more.
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●
Will Smith, ame rikanischer Schauspieler (20./21.JI1.).
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 9,501 | 305 rec. | — | 365 | Namur | 27 |
| IN India | 4,152 | 4.2K rec. | — | — | Namen | 4 |
| FR France | 1,268 | 1.6K rec. | — | 89 | Namur | 142 |
| US United States | 1,196 | 1.3K rec. | — | listed | Namur | 94 |
| CA Canada | 227 | 40 rec. | — | — | Namur | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 48△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 4.4M | 203 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | 38 | 159 rec. | — | listed | Namen | 20 |
| LU Luxembourg | 14 | 2 rec. | — | — | Namur | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 138 rec. | — | — | Namur | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | 8 | 53 rec. | — | — | Namur | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 0 rec. | — | 4 | Namur | 1 |
| SN Senegal | 5 | 0 rec. | — | — | Namur | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.3K48%
- Urdu1.4K15%
- Hindi1.2K14%
- Bangla1.2K13%
- Thai1542%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,337 | 48% |
| Urdu | 1,373 | 15% |
| Hindi | 1,213 | 14% |
| Bangla | 1,182 | 13% |
| Thai | 154 | 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●
Namen 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 German, na] eine Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, Al (eigtl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In gmh, first/third-person plural preterite indicative of nëmen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, To name, to give a name to.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In grt, very
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 172 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112 | #58,162 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1940 | 1 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Official candidate/public-employee name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Namen?
- We estimate roughly 49 people bear Namen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Namen have the most bearers?
- Namen is most frequently recorded in Belgium, where it is most often spelled namur.
- Is Namen a male or female name?
- Namen 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 Namen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Will Smith, ame rikanischer Schauspieler (20./21.JI1.).
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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, “Namen”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.