Roggen
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 54
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɑɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roggen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 21K
- NLNetherlands1 in 55K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
550 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 54.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Roggen is read(measured from records)
Roggen 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.
- English42%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Roggen in English.
- German16%
Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 54.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
- Dutch14%
plural of rog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Roggen in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Roggen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 550 | 1 in 21K | 550 | Roggen | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | 312 | 1 in 55K | 312 | Roggen | 33 |
| DE Germany | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 399K | listed | Roggen | 46 |
| US United States | 108 | 1 in 3.1M | 108 | Roggen | 97 |
| CH Switzerland | 33 | 1 in 255K | 33 | Roggen | 14 |
| NO Norway | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | 2 |
550 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the dfa-band-5 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Roggen 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 se, first-person singular past indicative of roggat
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)
- Domien Roggenb. 1886BEBelgian art historian
- Cornelis Roggenb. 1900Oosterschellings-dialect dictionarist, playwright, writer and poet
- Ingar Roggenb. 1934ESSpanish academic
- Johan Roggenb. 1947BEBelgian politician
- Dominique Roggenb. 1948CHborn:1948|; Roggen, Dominique
- Vibeke Roggenb. 1952NONorwegian classical philologist
- Frans Roggenb. 1953BELiterary critic and author from Belgium
- Live Maria Roggenb. 1970NONorwegian singer
- Ane Carmen Roggenb. 1978NONorwegian singer
- Ida Roggenb. 1978NONorwegian singer
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 550 | #2,716 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 496 | #3,089 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 312 | #6,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 33 | #25,467 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #37,442 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Roggen mean, and where does it come from?
- Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 54. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Roggen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Roggen have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 550 people named Roggen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roggen.
- Where is Roggen most common?
- Roggen is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Roggen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 550 people named Roggen in 2008, about 1 in 21 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/roggenThe 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, “Roggen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.