Royen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Royen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 24K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 198K
- SESweden1 in 340K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
484 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
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)
Royen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #771 | 484 | 1 in 24K | 489 | Royen | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | Royen | 32 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 622K | 3 | Royen | 85 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 743K | — | Royen | 6 |
| US United States | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6M | listed | Royen | 62 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 48 | 1 in 360K | 48 | Royen | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | Royen | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | — |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Royen | 1 |
484 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Adrianus van Royenb. 1704NLDutch botanist and university teacher (1704-1779)
- David van Royenb. 1727NLDutch botanist and physician (1727-1799)
- Louis Anne van Royenb. 1865NLDutch politician (1865-1946)
- Pieter van Royenb. 1923NLDutch botanist and explorer specializing on the New Guinea flora (1923-2002)
- Thomas Royenb. 1947DEGerman statistician
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 14 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 489 | #3,138 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 484 | #3,142 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 48 | #31,858 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30 | #18,622 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #48,846 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 2 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Royen have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 484 people named Royen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled royen.
- Where is Royen most common?
- Royen is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Royen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 484 people named Royen in 2008, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Royen compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Royen is the 771st most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Royen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/royenThe 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, “Royen” — the 771st most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.