Kassen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place so named
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkæsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kassen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 124K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 174K
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
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
habitational name from a place so named.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kassen 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 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Kassen | 57 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Kassen | 13 |
| US United States | 282 | 1 in 1.2M | 317 | Kassen | 144 |
| BR Brazil | 105 | 1 in 2M | 105 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 66 | 1 in 758K | 66 | Kassen | 4 |
| NO Norway | 44 | 1 in 124K | 44 | Kassen | 8 |
| GH Ghana | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 665K | — | Kassen | 3 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kassen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite masculine singular of kasse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of kasse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, plural of kas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vot, here
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alexandra Kassenb. 1923DEGerman cabaret theatre manager (1923–2017)
- Mark Kassenb. 1971USAmerican film director
- Adam Kassenb. 1974USAmerican actor and director
- Julia Kassenb. 2002DEGerman 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 18 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 317 | #67,188 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 299 | #62,577 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 282 | #69,579 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 105 | #61,079 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 66 | #36,632 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 66 | #36,589 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #28,515 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kassen mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place so named. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kassen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkæsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kassen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 389 people named Kassen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kassen.
- Where is Kassen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kassen is densest in Norway — about 1 in 124 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kassen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Kassen in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kassen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kassenThe 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, “Kassen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.