Leeuw
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: lion
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leeuw is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- ZASouth Africa
- BEBelgium
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lion
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
How Leeuw is read(measured from records)
Leeuw is one spelling over 3 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.
- Dutch47%
lion
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
- English29%
Gerardus van der. Dutch Reformed
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Dutch beer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
theologian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Leeuw in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Cornelis de Leeuwb. 1613NLDutch composer
- Willem de Leeuwb. 1892NLDutch politician (1892-1944)
- Harrie de Leeuwb. 1900NLpolitician
- Jan de Leeuwb. 1931NLDutch politician
- Wim de Leeuwb. 1938NLDutch politician (1938-2003)
- Salomon David Leeuwb. 1938holocaust victim, b. 1938-06-09
- Jan de Leeuwb. 1945NLDutch statistician
- Sander Van Der Leeuwb. 1945GBBiosocial Systems researcher
- Max de LeeuwNLresearcher
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 873 | #2,015 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 157 | #117,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 127 | #124,872 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 55 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 32 | #35,243 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #271,909 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #353,282 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Leeuw mean, and where does it come from?
- lion Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch.
- What are other forms of the name Leeuw?
- In the etymology graph, Löwe is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Leeuw have the most bearers?
- Leeuw is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Leeuw?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leeuwThe 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, “Leeuw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.