Lievens
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the old personal name Lieven, of Germanic origin, composed of the elements lief ‘dear’ -twine ‘friend’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫivənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lievens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 127K
- NLNetherlands1 in 77K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,976 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from the old personal name Lieven, of Germanic origin, composed of the elements lief ‘dear’ -twine ‘friend’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lievens 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 | #234 | 4,976 | 1 in 2.4K | 5K | Lievens | 92 |
| FR France | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 58 | Lievens | 151 |
| US United States | — | 290 | 1 in 1.1M | 294 | Lievens | 82 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 224 | 1 in 77K | 224 | Lievens | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 747K | — | Lievens | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Lievens | 9 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 1 |
4,976 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jan Lievensb. 1607NLDutch painter (1607–1674)
- Constant Lievensb. 1856BEJesuit priest and missionary (1856-1893)
- Jozef Lievensb. 1907BEBelgian politician (1907-1985)
- Henri Lievensb. 1920BEBelgian painter (1920-2000)
- Karel Lievensb. 1921BEBelgian historian
- Robrecht Lievensb. 1924BEphilologist (1924-2016)
- Roeland Lievensb. 1983NLDutch rower
- Matthias Lievensb. 1994BEBelgian association football player
- Filip Lievensb. 2000BEresearcher
- Ingeborg LievensBEBelgian actress
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5K | #104 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 4.6K | #112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 294 | #71,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 290 | #67,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 268 | #68,569 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 224 | #9,311 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 58 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lievens mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the old personal name Lieven, of Germanic origin, composed of the elements lief ‘dear’ -twine ‘friend’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lievens?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫivənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lievens have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Lievens, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lievens.
- Where is Lievens most common?
- Lievens is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lievens?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 4,976 people named Lievens in 2008, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Lievens compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Lievens is the 234th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lievensThe 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, “Lievens” — the 234th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.