Lampen
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Lamb-in, a diminutive of Lamb (Lambert); first attested Lambinus Frese 1181 P (Kent)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/læmpən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lampen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 13K
- NLNetherlands1 in 186K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Lamb-in, a diminutive of Lamb (Lambert); first attested Lambinus Frese 1181 P (Kent)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lampen is read(measured from records)
Lampen is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English70%
Lamb-in, a diminutive of Lamb (Lambert); first attested Lambinus Frese 1181 P (Kent)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
from a pet form of Lamb 1 and 2.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- German15%
plural of Lampe "lamps"
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Patronymischer Familienname aus Kurzform zu Rufnamen mit Land- als erstem Glied, meist Landbert/-brecht; genitivische Form; 169 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lampen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Lampen | 1 |
| FI Finland | 430 | 1 in 13K | 430 | Lampen | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 193K | listed | Lampen | 51 |
| US United States | 301 | 1 in 1.1M | 313 | Lampen | 146 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 298K | — | Lampen | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 93 | 1 in 186K | 93 | Lampen | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Lampen | 23 |
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; the dfa-band-6 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Lampen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dgc, diaper (also any clothing an infant is wrapped in)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite masculine singular of lampe
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)
- Willibrord Lampenb. 1888NLDutch Franciscan friar (1888-1966)
- Matti Lampénb. 1906FIFinnish architect (1906-1961)
- Heinrich Lampenb. 1914DEGerman university teacher (1914-1979)
- Hans Lampenb. 1923DEGerman politician (1923-2005)
- Timo Lampénb. 1934FIFinnish basketball player (1934-1999)
- Ines Lampenb. 1996DEGerman 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 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 366 | #4,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 302 | #62,046 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 301 | #65,782 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 93 | #20,161 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 92 | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Lampen mean, and where does it come from?
- Lamb-in, a diminutive of Lamb (Lambert); first attested Lambinus Frese 1181 P (Kent) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Lampen?
- A machine transcription gives /læmpən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lampen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Lampen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lampen.
- Where is Lampen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lampen is densest in Finland — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lampen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 430 people named Lampen, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lampenThe 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, “Lampen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.