Verheyen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɝhiən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Verheyen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. In Pitcairn Islands it is the 92nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch Verheyen.
- BEBelgium1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 82K
- USUnited States1 in 803K
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
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
6,151 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Dutch Verheyen.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Verheyen 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 | #115 | 6,151 | 1 in 1.9K | 6.2K | Verheyen | 99 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Verheyen | 61 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 424K | — | Verheyen | 11 |
| US United States | — | 414 | 1 in 803K | 439 | Verheyen | 136 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 141 | 1 in 123K | 141 | Verheyen | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 284K | — | Verheyen | 43 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Verheyen | 13 |
| PN Pitcairn Islands | #92 | — | — | — | Verheyen | 1 |
6,151 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Philip Verheyenb. 1648BEFlemish physician
- Piet Verheyenb. 1931NLDutch economist (1931–2021)
- Jan Verheyenb. 1944BEBelgian footballer
- Hans Verheyenb. 1944DEGerman politician
- René Verheyenb. 1952BEBelgian football player and coach
- Carl Verheyenb. 1954USAmerican guitarist
- Jan Verheyenb. 1963BEBelgian film director and actor and pornstar
- Sabine Verheyenb. 1964DEGerman politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Gert Verheyenb. 1970BEBelgian association football player
- Geert Verheyenb. 1973BEroad bicycle racer
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6.2K | #65 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 6K | #60 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 439 | #51,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 414 | #50,467 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 380 | #51,458 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 141 | #14,299 |
| 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Verheyen mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch Verheyen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Verheyen?
- A machine transcription gives /vɝhiən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Verheyen have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 6.2 thousand people named Verheyen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled verheyen.
- Where is Verheyen most common?
- Verheyen is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Verheyen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 6,151 people named Verheyen in 2008, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Verheyen compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Verheyen is the 115th 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/verheyenThe 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, “Verheyen” — the 115th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.