Velten
surname · Latin script
Meaning: German surname variant showing labial fricative alternation v/f; bearer count 1704
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bɛltẽ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Velten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 23K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 111K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,090 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)German surname variant showing labial fricative alternation v/f; bearer count 1704.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world
(measured from records)Velten 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,090 | 1 in 194K | 1.1K | Velten | 58 |
| US United States | 465 | 1 in 715K | 521 | Velten | 32 |
| NO Norway | 242 | 1 in 23K | 242 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 155 | 1 in 111K | 155 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 33 | 1 in 255K | 33 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
1,090 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Velten is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Typ mit F/V-Variation im Anlaut; stark konzentriert in PLZ 565 (Neuwied), 356 (Solms), 354 (Linden) und 765 (Baden-Baden).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronym zu lat. Valentinus (von valēns ‚kräftig, gesund‘); zeigt Anlaut-Varianz F/V. 1704 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, ) Veltin: männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
South German form of VALENTINE .
as a word
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)- Johann Veltenb. 1640DEGerman actor
- Johann Veltenb. 1807DEGerman painter (1807–1883)
- Geoffroy Veltenb. 1831FRFrench politician (1831-1915)
- Wilhelm Veltenb. 1847DERussian-German painter (1847–1929)
- Carl Veltenb. 1862DEGerman interpreter and linguist (1862–1935)
- Heinz Veltenb. 1935DEGerman painter and university teacher (1935-2015)
- Till Veltenb. 1961DEGerman photographer
- Folkert Veltenb. 1964NLDutch football player
- Tim Veltenb. 1983USAmerican soccer player
- Paul Veltenb. 1993FRFrench chess player
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 521 | #39,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 482 | #47,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 465 | #45,886 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 242 | #6,452 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 155 | #13,168 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 33 | #25,467 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #38,755 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Velten mean, and where does it come from?
- German surname variant showing labial fricative alternation v/f; bearer count 1704. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- How do you pronounce Velten?
- In Portuguese /bɛltẽ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Velten have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Velten, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled velten.
- Where is Velten most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Velten is densest in Norway — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Velten?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,090 people named Velten, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Velten?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veltenThe 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, “Velten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.