Lutgen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with liut- ‘people’ or Mod- ‘famous’ as the first element (see for example Luther, Ludwig) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lutgen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 800 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- BEBelgium1 in 109K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 416K
- DEGermany≈1 in 530Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
800 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Luxembourg, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lütgen in FR France.
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 a Germanic personal name formed with liut- ‘people’ or Mod- ‘famous’ as the first element (see for example Luther, Ludwig).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lutgen is found
(measured from records)Lutgen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 800 | 1 in 416K | 800 | Lutgen | 162 |
| LU Luxembourg | #393 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Lutgen | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 527K | — | Lutgen | 38 |
| FR France | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 595K | 25 | Lütgen | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 108 | 1 in 109K | 108 | Lutgen | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Lutgen | 5 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Lutgen | 1 |
800 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Berthe Lutgenb. 1935LULuxembourgish painter (born 1935)
- Guy Lutgenb. 1936BEBelgian politician (1936-2020)
- Benoît Lutgenb. 1970BEBelgian politician
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lutgen mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with liut- ‘people’ or Mod- ‘famous’ as the first element (see for example Luther, Ludwig). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lutgen?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 800 people named Lutgen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lutgen. After it come Luxembourg, Germany, France and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lutgen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 800 people named Lutgen in 2010, about 1 in 416 thousand residents.
- How common is Lutgen compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Lutgen is the 393rd most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lutgen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lutgenThe 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, “Lutgen” — ranked 29502nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.