Palmén

surname · Latin script

/palme:n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Palmén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 16K
  • SESweden1 in 36K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

1,070 people, 2007

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Palmen in NL Netherlands, US United States, BE Belgium.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Palmén 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.

Where Palmén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands1,0701 in 16K1.1KPalmen4
FI Finland4951 in 11K495Palmén16
SE Sweden2871 in 36K287Palmén22
US United States2541 in 1.3M262Palmen2
BE Belgium1171 in 100K117Palmen4
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7——

1,070 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Palmén is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Palmen

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Netherlands

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Palmen, Palmeñ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Palmen, Pálmen

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Netherlands, Belgium, United States

    Also written Palmen

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Пальмен, Palmen, Палмен

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800185019001950Johan Philip Palmén, b. 1811Johan Axel Palmén, b. 1845E. G. Palmén, b. 1849John Palmén, b. 1884Arne Palmén, b. 1885Erik Palmén, b. 1898Ernst Philip Palmén, b. 1916Aili Palmén, b. 1917Annikki Palmén, b. 1929Erkki Palmén, b. 1932

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)

FormalHej ,Dear Palmén, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Palmén
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—495#3,495
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—311—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—287#3,083

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Palmén?
A machine transcription gives /palme:n/ (IPA) for Swedish.
In which country does Palmén have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Palmén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palmen.
Where is Palmén most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Palmén is densest in Finland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Palmén?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,070 people named Palmén in 2007, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Palmén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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