Stassen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Harold E., US politician
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ˈstæsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stassen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 13K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 16K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 26K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
(measured from records)Harold E., US politician
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stassen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Stassen | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,089 | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Stassen | 41 |
| BE Belgium | 888 | 1 in 13K | 936 | Stassen | 44 |
| DE Germany | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Stassen | 63 |
| ML Mali | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Stassen | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Stassen | 1 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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)Stassen 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 Swedish, definite singular of stass
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)- Franz Stassenb. 1869DEGerman painter (1869-1949)
- Harold Stassenb. 1907US25th Governor of Minnesota (1907-2001)
- Willy Stassenb. 1948BEBelgian cinematographer
- Ben Stassenb. 1959BEBelgian film producer and director
- Jos Stassenb. 1961BEBelgian politician
- Lorenz Stassenb. 1969DEscreenwriter
- Laurence Stassenb. 1971NLDutch politician and television presenter
- Peter Stassenb. 1978BEBelgian actor
- Katharina Stassenb. 1983DEGerman association football player
- Liesel Stassenresearcher
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.1K | #1,547 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 936 | #1,434 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 888 | #1,556 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Stassen mean, and where does it come from?
- Harold E., US politician Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Stassen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstæsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stassen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Stassen in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stassen.
- Where is Stassen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stassen is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stassen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,089 people named Stassen 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/stassenThe 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, “Stassen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.