Nielen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ni.lə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nielen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 27K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 274K
- GHGhana≈1 in 554K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
650 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nielen 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 | 650 | 1 in 27K | 650 | Nielen | 50 |
| DE Germany | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 274K | listed | Nielen | 53 |
| GH Ghana | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 554K | — | Nielen | 1 |
| US United States | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 10M | listed | Nielen | 52 |
| PL Poland | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Nielen | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 17 | 1 in 689K | 17 | Nielen | 6 |
| AT Austria | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Nielen | 5 |
650 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); the dfa-band-6 register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Nielen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, first-person singular present indicative of niellä
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, not only
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Henk Nielenb. 1912NLDutch politician
- Gert Nielenb. 1926NLDutch university teacher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 650 | #2,854 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 17 | #53,265 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Nielen?
- A machine transcription gives /ni.lə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Nielen have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 650 people named Nielen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nielen.
- Where is Nielen most common?
- Nielen is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nielen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 650 people named Nielen in 2007, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nielen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nielenThe 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, “Nielen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.