Palmen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of palm
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəlmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Palmen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 11K
- NLNetherlands1 in 16K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
1,070 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Palmén in SE Sweden.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of palm
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palmen 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 | 1,070 | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Palmen | 45 |
| DE Germany | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Palmen | 66 |
| FI Finland | 495 | 1 in 11K | 495 | Palmen | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 287 | 1 in 36K | 287 | Palmén | 8 |
| US United States | 254 | 1 in 1.3M | 262 | Palmen | 135 |
| BE Belgium | 117 | 1 in 100K | 117 | Palmen | 13 |
1,070 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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Palmen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of palme
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of palm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, inflection of palmar:
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)
- Annie Palmenb. 1926NLDutch actress and singer (1926-2000)
- Manfred Palmenb. 1945DEGerman politician (1945–2022)
- Connie Palmenb. 1955NLDutch writer
- Luisa Palmenb. 2002DEGerman association football player
- Léon Paul PalmenNLDutch songwriter
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.1K | #1,582 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 262 | #69,854 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 254 | #75,799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 245 | #82,881 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 117 | #13,704 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 101 | #12,683 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #61,128 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Palmen mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of palm Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Palmen?
- A machine transcription gives /pəlmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Palmen have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Palmen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palmen.
- Where is Palmen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Palmen is densest in Finland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Palmen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,070 people named Palmen in 2007, about 1 in 16 thousand 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/palmenThe 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, “Palmen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.