Awen
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Breton name, from a Celtic word often glossed as 'inspiration'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Awen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 163K(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 159K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Breton name, from a Celtic word often glossed as 'inspiration'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Awen is read(measured from records)
Awen is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French60%
Breton name, from a Celtic word often glossed as 'inspiration'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Forme bretonne de Venance, d’origine latine, « celui qui vient ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English21%
Synonym of Heliopolis (“ancient Egyptian city”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Awen in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Awen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Awen | 13 |
| FR France | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 920 | Awen | 126 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Awen | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 567K | — | Awen | 5 |
| US United States | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Awen | 19 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Awen | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Awen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, a female given name, meaning inspiration
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, aven (vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, To scare, horrify.
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
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
- What does the name Awen mean, and where does it come from?
- Breton name, from a Celtic word often glossed as 'inspiration'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Awen a male or female name?
- Awen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Awen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Awen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled awen.
- How common is the name Awen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Awen, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/awenThe 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, “Awen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.