Lène
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Lène is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country: 29,290 people, counted by the Danmarks Statistik, which ranks it 9th. Recorded meaning: From Helene and Magdalene. Cognate with English Lena.
- DKDenmark1 in 200(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 563
- ALAlbania1 in 12K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 200 (inferred from the name graph)
29,290 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lene in NO Norway, US United States, SE Sweden.
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)- Heleneand(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜαγδαληνήMagdalēnḗ“woman from Magdala”(inferred from the name graph)via Magdalene
- Hebrewמגדלmigdál“tower”(inferred from the name graph)via Magdalene
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Helene and Magdalene. Cognate with English Lena.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lène 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.
29,290 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lène mean, and where does it come from?
- From Helene and Magdalene. Cognate with English Lena. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Lène?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Lène, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Norway, Brazil, United States and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lène most common?
- Lène is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 200 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lène?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 29,290 people named Lène, about 1 in 200 residents.
What do you want to know about Lène?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A8neThe 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, “Lène” — ranked 9th in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.