Komen

surname · Latin script

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

Komen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hap. leg.; general meaning ‘trickery’.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 18K
  • HRCroatia1 in 117K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

938 people, 2007

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Comines in BE Belgium and Kömen in DE Germany.

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)

Hap. leg.; general meaning ‘trickery’

Sources 1

  • Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Komen 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.

Where Komen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands9381 in 18K938Komen38
US United States1651 in 2M178Komen110
DE Germany≈56 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Kömen23
HR Croatia361 in 117K36—1
SI Slovenia161 in 131K16——
BE Belgium151 in 781K15Comines5

938 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Komen is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States

    Also written โกเมนทร์, โกมาร, Komain, โกแมน, โกเมนท์

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Netherlands, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kömen

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kömen

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Komen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, to come

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch

  • In Indonesian, comment (spoken or written remark)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, Comines (a city in Belgium)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In iba, comment

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In otk, Hap. leg.; general meaning ‘trickery’

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

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)

190019502000Klaas Komen, b. 1911Daniel Komen, b. 1976Edwin Komen, b. 1980Willy Rutto Komen, b. 1987Brian Komen, b. 1998

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 15 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Komen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007938#1,857
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020178#106,589
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010165#107,669
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000123#127,948
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202136#16,440
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202131—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—16#15,345
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200815#56,613
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Komen mean, and where does it come from?
Hap. leg.; general meaning ‘trickery’ Recorded by Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972).
In which country does Komen have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 938 people named Komen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled komen.
Where is Komen most common?
Komen is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Komen?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 938 people named Komen in 2007, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.

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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, “Komen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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