Erkén
surname · Latin script
Erkén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 119 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007. Recorded meaning: a particle meaning “while being”.
- BEBelgium1 in 125K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 145K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 420K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
119 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)a particle meaning “while being”
Cited for this meaning 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Erkén is found
(measured from records)Erkén 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 119 | 1 in 145K | 119 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 94 | 1 in 125K | 94 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 672K | 1 | Erkén | 6 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | 3 |
119 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Erkén mean, and where does it come from?
- a particle meaning “while being” Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972) and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Erkén?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 119 people named Erkén, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Erkén most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Erkén is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Erkén?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 119 people named Erkén in 2007, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Erkén?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erk%C3%A9nThe 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, “Erkén” — ranked 16472nd in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.