Lokken

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads called Lpkken, from Old Norse lykkja ‘enclosure’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lokken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 266K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 64K
  • FIFinland≈1 in 116K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,252 people, 2010

Sources
185 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Lökken in SE Sweden.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads called Lpkken, from Old Norse lykkja ‘enclosure’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lokken 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.

Where Lokken is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2521 in 266K1.3KLokken185
NL Netherlands2681 in 64K268Lokken23
IT Italy≈150 est.≈1 in 417K—Lokken1
DZ Algeria≈140 est.≈1 in 309K—Lokken1
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 509K—Lokken9
TN Tunisia≈80 est.≈1 in 147K—Lokken2
CU Cuba≈59 est.≈1 in 186K—Lokken2
FI Finland≈48 est.≈1 in 116K—Lokken1
SE Sweden≈43 est.≈1 in 238K—Lökken8

1,252 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lokken is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Netherlands

    Also written Lökken

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway

    Also written Lökken, Lòkken

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Lökken

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lokken 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of lokk

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, to attract, lure, bait

    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)

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 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Lokken
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.3K#21,009
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,111
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,050
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007268#7,716
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Lokken mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads called Lpkken, from Old Norse lykkja ‘enclosure’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Lokken have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Lokken, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lokken.
Where is Lokken most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lokken is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lokken?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,252 people named Lokken in 2010, about 1 in 266 thousand residents.

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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, “Lokken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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