Roelen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹoʊɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roelen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 178Kas Rolen(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 33K
- BEBelgium1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Roelen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,868 named Rolen, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rolen in US United States, CA Canada, NZ New Zealand and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roelen 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 | 1,868as Rolen | 1 in 178K | 1.9K | Rolen | 227 |
| NL Netherlands | 519 | 1 in 33K | 519 | Roelen | 31 |
| BE Belgium | 326 | 1 in 36K | 326 | Roelen | 28 |
| CA Canada | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Rolen | 11 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 490K | — | Roelen | 47 |
| NO Norway | 140as Rolen | 1 in 39K | 140 | — | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Rolen | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Rolen | 3 |
1,868 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Karoline Roelenb. 1857CZHolocaust victim (born 1857)
- Jaap Roelenb. 2002NLDutch cyclist
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 519 | #3,726 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 326 | #5,026 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 302 | #5,671 |
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
- How do you pronounce Roelen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Roelen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Rolen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Roelen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roelen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Roelen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 519 people named Roelen in 2007, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Roelen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roelenThe 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, “Roelen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.