Citroën
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Citroën is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Citroën.
- NLNetherlands1 in 240K(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 468K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 650K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 240K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Citroen in US United States, NL Netherlands, AU Australia and 2 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 French Citroën.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Citroën 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Citroen | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 72 | 1 in 240K | 72 | Citroen | 20 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 650K | — | Citroen | 1 |
| FR France | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 6 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | — | Citroen | 51 |
| AU Australia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Citroen | 18 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- André Citroënb. 1878FRFrench businessman (1878-1935)
- Georgina Bingenb. 1892ITnot in their usual namewife of André Citroën
- Hanan Cidorb. 1905DEnot in their usual nameIsraeli Embassador to the Netherlands (1957-1963)
- Jacqueline Citroënb. 1915FR(1915-1994)
- Bernard Citroënb. 1917FRFrench engineer (1917-2002)
- Bernard Citroënb. 1925NLsculptor (1925–2009)
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 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Citroën mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Citroën. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Citroën have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 people named Citroën in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled citroen.
- Where is Citroën most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Citroën is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 240 thousand people — even though Kenya holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Citroën?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 72 people named Citroën in 2007, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/citro%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, “Citroën”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.