Paßen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymischer Familienname; Anschluss an Peschen/Pesch im Raum Krefeld–Remscheid–Emmerich
Paßen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Mas Passen(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 186Kas Passen
- KEKenya≈1 in 246Kas Passen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Paßen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 named Passen, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est., as Passen
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Passen in US United States, DE Germany, BE Belgium and 3 more.
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)
Toponymischer Familienname; Anschluss an Peschen/Pesch im Raum Krefeld–Remscheid–Emmerich. Bearer count: 21+8.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paßen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Passen | 1 |
| US United States | 197as Passen | 1 in 1.7M | 197 | Passen | 109 |
| DE Germany | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Passen | 23 |
| BE Belgium | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Passen | 10 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 750K | — | Passen | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Passen | 2 |
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. 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 Paßen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymischer Familienname; Anschluss an Peschen/Pesch im Raum Krefeld–Remscheid–Emmerich.
- In which country does Paßen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 218 people named Passen in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paßen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 197 people named Passen in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pa%C3%9FenThe 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, “Paßen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.