Düren

loc · Latin script

Meaning: from several place-names; e.g

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Düren is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • PLPoland

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dueren in PL Poland.

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)

from several place-names; e.g. Dürhagen, Dürholt, Dürholz

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Düren counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Düren is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany——Düren45
PL Poland—3Dueren1
US United States—4K—31
BR Brazil—25——
BE Belgium—17—2

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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Düren is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Duren

  • German name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Poland

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Duren, Durén

  • French name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Duren, Durén

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Duren

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Isaac ben Meir Halevi of Düren, b. 1300Adam van Düren, b. 1500Theodor Wilhelm Düren, b. 1866Margarethe Düren, b. 1904Fred Düren, b. 1928Irmgard Düren, b. 1930Hans Düren, b. 1948Michael Düren, b. 1957

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 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Düren
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084#120,259

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

Where does the name Düren come from?
from several place-names; e.g. Dürhagen, Dürholt, Dürholz Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
What does the name Düren mean?
Recorded meaning: from several place-names; e.g.
In which country does Düren have the most bearers?
Düren is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled düren.

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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, “Düren”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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