Geens
surname · Latin script
Meaning: masculine/neuter genitive singular of geen
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ɣəɛns/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Geens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 3K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 690Kfew records
- NLNetherlands1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
3,905 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)masculine/neuter genitive singular of geen
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Geens 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #275 | 3,905 | 1 in 3K | 3.9K | Geens | 85 |
| FR France | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 693K | 11 | Geens | 81 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Geens | 45 |
| US United States | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Geens | 29 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Geens | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 17 | 1 in 1M | 17 | Geens | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 814K | — | Geens | 6 |
3,905 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)- Louis Geensb. 1835BEBelgian artist, 1835-1906 (1835–1906)
- Jozef Geensb. 1893BEBelgian politician (1893-1945)
- Gust Geensb. 1919BEBelgian politician
- Gaston Geensb. 1931BEBelgian politician and former minister-president of Flanders (1931-2002)
- André Geensb. 1941BEBelgian politician (born 1941)
- Jos Geensb. 1951BEBelgian actor (1951)
- Koen Geensb. 1958BEBelgian politician
- Mieke Geensb. 1982BEBelgian athletics competitor
- Jelle Geensb. 1993BEBelgian triathlete
- Bo Geensb. 1995BEassociation 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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.9K | #182 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.7K | #191 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 17 | #52,426 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Geens mean, and where does it come from?
- masculine/neuter genitive singular of geen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Geens?
- In Dutch /ɣəɛns/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Geens have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Geens, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geens.
- Where is Geens most common?
- Geens is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Geens?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3,905 people named Geens in 2008, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Geens compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Geens is the 275th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Geens?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geensThe 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, “Geens” — the 275th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.