Ehlen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ehlen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Ehlen.
- DEGermany≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 383K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 63K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from German Ehlen.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ehlen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Ehlen | 85 |
| US United States | 868 | 1 in 383K | 907 | Ehlen | 178 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Ehlen | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Ehlen | 12 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Ehlen | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 177 | 1 in 98K | 177 | Ehlen | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Ehlen | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Otto Ehlenb. 1831DEarchitect (1831-1898)
- Nikolaus Ehlenb. 1886DEGerman pacifist (1886-1965)
- Peter Ehlenb. 1934DEGerman philosopher (1934–2022)
- Bernhard Ehlenb. 1939DEGerman priest
- Margriet Ehlenb. 1943NLDutch conductor
- Tonie Ehlenb. 1946NLDutch pianist
- Hans-Heinrich Ehlenb. 1949DEGerman politician
- Leo Ehlenb. 1953NLDutch footballer (1953-2016)
- Michelle Ehlenb. 1978USFilmmaker and actress
- Stephanie Ehlenb. 1991BEBelgian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 907 | #28,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 868 | #27,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 830 | #27,361 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 177 | #11,738 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Ehlen mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Ehlen. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Ehlen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ehlen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Ehlen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ehlen.
- How common is the name Ehlen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 868 people named Ehlen in 2010, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ehlenThe 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, “Ehlen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.