Koyen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɔɪɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koyen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 37K(measured from records)
- BMBermuda≈1 in 43K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 465K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Koyen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
179,293 named כהן, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koyen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | — | 179,293as כהן | 1 in 48 | 179K | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 317 | 1 in 37K | 334 | Koyen | 19 |
| US United States | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | listed | Koyen | 89 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Koyen | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Koyen | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Koyen | 6 |
| BM Bermuda | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Koyen | 1 |
| NR Nauru | #408 | — | — | — | Koyen | 1 |
179,293 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 334 | #4,968 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 317 | #5,178 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Koyen?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔɪɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Koyen have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 179 thousand people named כהן, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Koyen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Koyen is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Koyen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 317 people named Koyen in 2008, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Koyen compared with other names?
- In Nauru, Koyen is the 408th most common surname of 1,280 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koyenThe 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, “Koyen” — the 408th most common surname in Nauru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.