Lütjens
surname · Latin script
Lütjens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Patronymische/Genitivform mit -s zu Lütjen; Bearer count 353.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 154K
- NLNetherlands1 in 254K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lutjens in US United States, NL Netherlands, SG Singapore and 2 more and Luetjens in CH Switzerland.
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)
Patronymische/Genitivform mit -s zu Lütjen; Bearer count 353.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lütjens 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Lütjens | 37 |
| US United States | 231 | 1 in 1.4M | 231 | Lutjens | 102 |
| NL Netherlands | 68 | 1 in 254K | 68 | Lutjens | 13 |
| IT Italy | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Lutjens | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Lutjens | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Lutjens | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | Luetjens | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lütjens 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 German, Patronymische/diminutive Bildung auf -jens. 3 Types/353 Tokens; Lü(t/th)jens 333+5, Luetjens 15.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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(measured from records)
- Günther Lütjensb. 1889DEGerman admiral (1889–1941)
- Helmuth Lütjensb. 1893DEart dealer employed by Cassirer in Amsterdam 1893-1987
- Günther Lütjensb. 1932German physicist (1932-)
- Gustl Lütjensb. 1952DEGerman guitarist (1952–2017)
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(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lütjens mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymische/Genitivform mit -s zu Lütjen; Bearer count 353.
- In which country does Lütjens have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 520 people named Lütjens in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lütjens.
- How common is the name Lütjens?
- In the United States, the national register counted 231 people named Lütjens in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%BCtjensThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lütjens”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.