Rongen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rongen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 186.
- NLNetherlands1 in 15K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 94K
- DEGermany≈1 in 188K
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)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
1,162 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 186.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rongen 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 | 1,162 | 1 in 15K | 1.2K | Rongen | 47 |
| DE Germany | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 188K | listed | Rongen | 52 |
| NO Norway | 58 | 1 in 94K | 58 | Rongen | 21 |
| US United States | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | listed | Rongen | 41 |
| AU Australia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 685K | — | Rongen | 27 |
| BE Belgium | 13 | 1 in 902K | 13 | Rongen | 7 |
1,162 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jacob Rongenb. 1887DEGerman politician (1887-1970)
- Bjørn Rongenb. 1906NONorwegian writer (1906-1983)
- Carl-Josef Rongenb. 1926DEGerman politician (1926-1995)
- Ole Bjørn Rongenb. 1946NONorwegian journalist
- Elke Rongenb. 1970DEGerman para badminton player
- Janine Rongenb. 1985NLDutch association football player
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Rongen mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 186. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- In which country does Rongen have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Rongen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rongen.
- Where is Rongen most common?
- Rongen is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rongen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,162 people named Rongen in 2007, about 1 in 15 thousand 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/rongenThe 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, “Rongen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.