Rehn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kurzw. zu einem Rufnamen mit ragin/regin- „Rat, Beschluss“; 798 Träger
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rehn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 316K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 4.3K
- SESweden1 in 4.8K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,141 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kurzw. zu einem Rufnamen mit ragin/regin- „Rat, Beschluss“; 798 Träger.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rehn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 2,141 | 1 in 4.8K | 2.1K | Rehn | 48 |
| FI Finland | 1,284 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | Rehn | 16 |
| US United States | 1,054 | 1 in 316K | 1.1K | Rehn | 204 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 349K | — | Rehn | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 137K | 1 | Rehn | 62 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Rehn | 2 |
| NO Norway | 94 | 1 in 58K | 94 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 82 | 1 in 72K | 82 | — | 2 |
2,141 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Rehn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hrx, rain
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)
- Jean Eric Rehnb. 1717SESwedish architect and designer (1717-1793)
- Ludwig Rehnb. 1849DEGerman physician (1849–1930)
- Fritz Rehnb. 1874DEGerman judge (1874-1934)
- Gösta Rehnb. 1913SESwedish economist (1913-1996)
- Elisabeth Rehnb. 1935FIFinnish defence minister 1990–1995 and UN undersecretary general
- Veronica Rehn-Kivib. 1956FIFinnish architect and politician
- Stefan Rehnb. 1966SESwedish footballer and manager
- Heidi Rehnb. 1966DEGerman journalist and author
- Trista Sutterb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican television personality
- Yohiob. 1995SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and 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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.1K | #488 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.3K | #1,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,680 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 518 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 94 | #16,232 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 82 | #6,613 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Rehn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɛn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Rehn mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kurzw. zu einem Rufnamen mit ragin/regin- „Rat, Beschluss“; 798 Träger.
- In which country does Rehn have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Rehn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rehn.
- Where is Rehn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rehn is densest in Finland — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rehn?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2,141 people named Rehn, about 1 in 4.8 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/rehnThe 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, “Rehn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.