Lemmens
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/lɛmɛns/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Lemmens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country: 8,804 people, counted by Familienaam.be in 2008, which ranks it 33rd. Lemmens is also written Лемменс in Cyrillic.
- BEBelgium1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.8K
- FIFinland1 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lemmens itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
8,804 people, 2008
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lemmens in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Lemmens
- Dutch:/lɛmɛns/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Lemmens is found
(measured from records)Lemmens 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 8,804 | 1 in 1.3K | 8.8K | Lemmens | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | 4,531 | 1 in 3.8K | 4.5K | Lemmens | 5 |
| US United States | 177 | 1 in 1.9M | 209 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 51 | 1 in 981K | 51 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
8,804 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Lemmens is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, definite genitive singular of lem
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)- Jacques-Nicolas Lemmensb. 1823BEBelgian musician (1823–1881)
- An Lemmensb. 1980BEBelgian presenter
- Mats Lemmensb. 2002BEfootball 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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Lemmens?
- In Dutch /lɛmɛns/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lemmens?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Lemmens, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lemmens. After it come Netherlands, United States, Spain and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lemmens most common?
- Lemmens is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lemmens?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 8,804 people named Lemmens in 2008, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lemmens?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lemmensThe 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, “Lemmens” — ranked 33rd in Belgium (Familienaam.be, 2008). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.