Lavén
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Lavén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch Laven.
- NLNetherlands1 in 42K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 151K
- DEGermany≈1 in 290Kfew records
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 Lavén itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
547 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Laven in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NL Netherlands and 4 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)Borrowed from Dutch Laven.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lavén 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 547 | 1 in 608K | 611 | Laven | 178 |
| NL Netherlands | 414 | 1 in 42K | 414 | Laven | 24 |
| DE Germany | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Laven | 44 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 936K | — | Laven | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 361K | — | Laven | 70 |
| SE Sweden | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 17 | Laven | 21 |
| FI Finland | 37 | 1 in 151K | 37 | — | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Laven | 1 |
547 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lavén mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch Laven. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Lavén have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 547 people named Lavén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laven.
- Where is Lavén most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lavén is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lavén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 547 people named Lavén in 2010, about 1 in 608 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lavén?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lav%C3%A9nThe 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, “Lavén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.