Lueken
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Ludo, Lode, or a pet form of a Germanic name formed with the initial element Hut or hlod (e.g (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lueken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 38Kas Lüken
- NLNetherlands1 in 109Kas Luken
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 Lueken 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 230K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 named Lüken, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lueken in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Luken in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Lüken in DE Germany.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of the personal name Ludo, Lode, or a pet form of a Germanic name formed with the initial element Hut or hlod (e.g. Ludolph).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Lueken is found
(measured from records)Lueken 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Lüken | 63 |
| US United States | — | 1,557as Luken | 1 in 214K | 1.6K | Luken | 221 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 509K | — | Luken | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | Luken | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 158as Luken | 1 in 109K | 158 | Luken | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 284K | 2 | Luken | 38 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Lueken | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 2 |
| VA Vatican City | #184 | — | — | — | Luken | 1 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Emil Luekenb. 1879DEGerman politician (1879-1961)
- Veronica Luekenb. 1923USAmerican Marian visionary (1923–1995)
- Verena Luekenb. 1955DEGerman journalist and writer
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lueken come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Ludo, Lode, or a pet form of a Germanic name formed with the initial element Hut or hlod (e.g. Ludolph). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lueken mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Ludo, Lode, or a pet form of a Germanic name formed with the initial element Hut or hlod (e.g.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lueken?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Lüken in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Philippines, United Kingdom and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lueken?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Lueken in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
- How common is Lueken compared with other names?
- In Vatican City, Lueken is the 184th most common surname of 1,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luekenThe 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, “Lueken” — the 184th most common surname in Vatican City. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.