Nannen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic form from a short form of a personal name ending with -nand, such as Gemand, Signand, or Wignand
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nənən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nannen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 168K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 168K (inferred from the name graph)
232 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic form from a short form of a personal name ending with -nand, such as Gemand, Signand, or Wignand. Compare Nann).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nannen 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 | 232 | 1 in 1.4M | 238 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 103 | 1 in 168K | 103 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | — | Nannen | 2 |
232 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
- Henri Nannenb. 1913DEGerman journalist, art collector and wartime Nazi propagandist (1913-1996)
- Lothar NannenDEDr. rer. nat. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2008
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 238 | #84,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 232 | #81,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 215 | #81,700 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 103 | #18,571 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Nannen come from?
- patronymic form from a short form of a personal name ending with -nand, such as Gemand, Signand, or Wignand. Compare Nann). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nannen?
- A machine transcription gives /nənən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Nannen mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic form from a short form of a personal name ending with -nand, such as Gemand, Signand, or Wignand.
- In which country does Nannen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 232 people named Nannen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nannen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nannen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 168 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nannen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 232 people named Nannen in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nannenThe 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, “Nannen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.