Løken
surname · Latin script
Meaning: definite singular of løk
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/løːkɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Løken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,612 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Loeken in GH Ghana.
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)
definite singular of løk
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Løken 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.
4,612 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Hjalmar Løkenb. 1852NONorwegian journalist
- Håkon Løkenb. 1859NONorwegian journalist (1859-1923)
- Martin Løkenb. 1863NONorwegian politician (1863-1942)
- Kristen Løkenb. 1885NONorwegian pastor (1885-1975)
- Astrid Løkenb. 1911NONorwegian entomologist (1911-2008)
- Johan C. Løkenb. 1944NOpolitician from Norway (1944-2017)
- Sverre Løkenb. 1960NONorwegian rower
- Bård Løkenb. 1964NONorwegian photographer
- Karl-Petter Løkenb. 1966NONorwegian footballer
- Oskar Johannes Løkenb. 1998NONorwegian association football 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)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4.6K | #174 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,533 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #35,505 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #228,612 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #354,955 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Løken mean, and where does it come from?
- definite singular of løk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Løken?
- A machine transcription gives /løːkɛn/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Løken have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Løken, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled løken.
- Where is Løken most common?
- Løken is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Løken?
- In Norway, the national register counted 4,612 people named Løken, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Løken?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%B8kenThe 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, “Løken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.