Monden
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: dative plural of Mond
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məndən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 69K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 141K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
249 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dative plural of Mond
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Monden is read(measured from records)
Monden is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Monden in English.
- Japanese18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Monden in Japanese.
- German11%
dative plural of Mond
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.6%
inflection of mondar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Monden 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 249 | 1 in 69K | 249 | Monden | 3 |
| US United States | 221 | 1 in 1.5M | 251 | Monden | 12 |
| BE Belgium | 83 | 1 in 141K | 83 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
249 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Monden is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, worldly, fashionable, elegant, sophisticated
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, worldly, mundane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, plural of mond
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, fashionable
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)
- Bruno Mondenb. 1900DEGerman art director (1900–1980)
- Hugo Mondenb. 1936BEBelgian pianist
- Carlos Mondenb. 1937MXMexican actor (1937-2011)
- Yasuhiro Mondenb. 1940JPJapanese business theorist
- Morito Mondenb. 1945JPJapanese medical researcher
- Christiaan Mondenb. 1975NLresearcher
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 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 251 | #81,311 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 249 | #8,338 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 221 | #84,748 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 192 | #89,549 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 83 | #17,998 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #276,823 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #362,652 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Monden mean, and where does it come from?
- dative plural of Mond Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Monden?
- A machine transcription gives /məndən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Monden have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 249 people named Monden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monden.
- Where is Monden most common?
- Monden is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Monden?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 249 people named Monden in 2007, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Monden?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mondenThe 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, “Monden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.