Namur
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Namur is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ECEcuador≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 1.4M
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.2M
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 Namur 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 named Namen, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Namen in IN India, DE Germany.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Namur 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Namen | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 48 | 1 in 4.4M | 203 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 12M | listed | Namur | 109 |
| DE Germany | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Namen | 21 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 2 | — | 1 |
| CL Chile | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 365 | Namur | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Namur | 27 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Namur is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Namur (a city in Belgium)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, commune, prov, Belgium
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Catalan, Namur (the capital city of Namur, Belgium)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Namur (a city in Namur, Belgium)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dta, autumn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, love
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Blanche of Namurb. 1320NOQueen consort of Norway and Sweden (1320–1363)
- Barthélemy Namurb. 1728LULuxembourg sculptor (1728–1779)
- Jean Pie Namurb. 1804BEBelgian bibliographer and librarian (1804-1867)
- Parfait Namurb. 1815BEBelgian lawyer and university teacher (1815-1890)
- Josef Namurb. 1823LULuxembourgish pharmacist (1823-1892)
- Émile Namurb. 1852BEBelgian sculptor (1852–1908)
- Paul-Franz Namurb. 1877FRFrench painter and illustrator
- Yves Namurb. 1952BEBelgian writer
- Cathy Namurb. 1967FRFrench politician
- Rudy Namurb. 1980FRFrench politician
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 365 | #4,380 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 308 | #5,537 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 203 | #36,365 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Namur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 263 people named Namen in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Namur?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 48 people named Namur in 2022, about 1 in 4.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Namur?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/namurThe 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, “Namur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.