Moën
surname · Latin script
Moën is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 19,820 people, counted by SSB, which ranks it 27th. Recorded meaning: Norwegian; habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads all over Norway, so named from the definite singular form of mo, from Old Norse mor ‘plain’, ‘moor’, ‘heath’. Moën is also written เมน in Thai.
- NONorway1 in 276(measured from records)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 5.5Kfew records
- SESweden1 in 20K
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 Moën 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- 1 in 276 (inferred from the name graph)
19,820 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Moën in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Moen in US United States, NO Norway, GB United Kingdom and 5 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)Norwegian; habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads all over Norway, so named from the definite singular form of mo, from Old Norse mor ‘plain’, ‘moor’, ‘heath’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Moën is found
(measured from records)Moën 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #20 | 19,820 | 1 in 276 | 20K | Moen | 124 |
| US United States | — | 8,138 | 1 in 41K | 8.1K | Moen | 339 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Moen | 83 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,089as Mon | 1 in 46K | 1.1K | Moen | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 70K | listed | Moen | 70 |
| BE Belgium | — | 628as Menu | 1 in 19K | 628 | Moen | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 500 | 1 in 20K | 500 | Moen | 39 |
| FI Finland | — | 250as Manu | 1 in 22K | 2.5K | — | 6 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #152 | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Moen | 1 |
19,820 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Moën is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In li, Eupen form of Mǫǫnt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moën mean, and where does it come from?
- Norwegian; habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads all over Norway, so named from the definite singular form of mo, from Old Norse mor ‘plain’, ‘moor’, ‘heath’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Moën?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Moën, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moen. After it come United States, Canada, Spain and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Moën most common?
- Moën is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 276 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Moën?
- In Norway, the national register counted 19,820 people named Moën, about 1 in 276 residents.
- How common is Moën compared with other names?
- In Norway, Moën is the 20th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mo%C3%ABnThe 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, “Moën” — ranked 27th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.