Jennes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymisch aus einem Rufnamen; 168 Träger
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/jə.nəs/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Jennes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 13K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 170Kfew records
- NLNetherlands1 in 432K
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
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
900 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)Patronymisch aus einem Rufnamen; 168 Träger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where the surname Jennes is found
(measured from records)Jennes 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 | 900 | 1 in 13K | 900 | Jennes | 44 |
| DE Germany | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 168K | listed | Jennes | 51 |
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 109 | Jennes | 102 |
| FR France | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 8 | Jennes | 61 |
| NL Netherlands | 40 | 1 in 432K | 41 | Jennes | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
900 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the dfa-band-6 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Hans Jennesb. 1910DEGerman politician (1910-1990)
- Lucien Jeunesseb. 1918FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor and radio host (1918-2008)
- Birgitte Jennesb. 1953Danish sprinter
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Jennes?
- In Dutch /jə.nəs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Jennes mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymisch aus einem Rufnamen; 168 Träger.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jennes?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 900 people named Jennes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jennes. After it come Germany, United States, France and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jennes most common?
- Jennes is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jennes?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 900 people named Jennes in 2008, about 1 in 13 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/jennesThe 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, “Jennes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.