Taken
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Infatuated; fond of or attracted to
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/tacen/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Taken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 72K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
239 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Taken is found
(measured from records)Taken 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 239 | 1 in 72K | 239 | — | 3 |
| IN India | 7 | 1 in 189M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Taken | 14 |
239 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Taken is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, definite plural of tak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, to take, to grasp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, to take, to grab
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Taken mean, and where does it come from?
- Infatuated; fond of or attracted to. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Taken?
- In Turkish /tacen/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Taken?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 239 people named Taken, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Poland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Taken most common?
- Taken is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Taken?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 239 people named Taken in 2007, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Taken?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takenThe 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, “Taken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.