Roosen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic from a personal name with weak genitive -en; illustrates weak-genitive patronym formation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹusən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roosen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 82K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
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
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
2,260 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymic from a personal name with weak genitive -en; illustrates weak-genitive patronym formation.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roosen 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 | #591 | 2,260 | 1 in 5.2K | 2.3K | Roosen | 63 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,053 | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Roosen | 59 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 82K | listed | Roosen | 79 |
| US United States | — | 228 | 1 in 1.5M | 258 | Roosen | 126 |
| FR France | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 415K | 15 | Roosen | 114 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 20 | 1 in 169K | 20 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | 10 | — | 1 |
2,260 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the dfa-band-1 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Roosen 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 German, Patronymisch mit schwachem Genitiv zu Roos/Rose; Belegzählung 415. Die Karte zeigt die o/oo-Variation in der Namenreihe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
- Gerhard Roosenb. 1612DEGerman deacon and preacher (1612-1711)
- Carl Roosenb. 1800NONorwegian cartographer and military officer
- Hyacinthe Roosenb. 1897BEwrestler (1897-1967)
- Louis Roosenb. 1900FRParis photographer
- Richard Roosenb. 1901DEGerman engineer (1901-1980)
- Rodolfo Sienra Roosenb. 1940UYUruguayan lawyer
- Maria Roosenb. 1957NLDutch sculptor (born 1957)
- Luc Roosenb. 1964BEcyclist
- Timo Roosenb. 1993NLDutch cyclist
- Andrew RoosenUSPh.D. Rutgers University, New Brunswick 1993
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.3K | #421 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.1K | #463 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.1K | #1,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 258 | #70,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 249 | #81,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 228 | #82,613 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 23 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 14 | — |
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 Roosen mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic from a personal name with weak genitive -en; illustrates weak-genitive patronym formation. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Roosen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹusən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Roosen have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Roosen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roosen.
- Where is Roosen most common?
- Roosen is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Roosen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,260 people named Roosen in 2008, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Roosen compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Roosen is the 591st most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roosenThe 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, “Roosen” — the 591st most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.