Widen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To become wide or wider
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/waɪdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Widen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 514K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 3.9K
- FIFinland1 in 38K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,648 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To become wide or wider.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Widen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 2,648 | 1 in 3.9K | 2.6K | Widen | 35 |
| US United States | 647 | 1 in 514K | 650 | Widen | 198 |
| FI Finland | 145 | 1 in 38K | 145 | — | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 658K | 17 | Widen | 23 |
| NO Norway | 100 | 1 in 55K | 100 | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 439K | — | Widen | 30 |
| DK Denmark | 26 | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | — |
2,648 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling widén. 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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Widen 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 na, Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe)
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)
- Lew Neyb. 1886USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer and printer
- Bernard A. Widenb. 1920USAmerican dentist and artist
- Gregory Widenb. 1958USAmerican screenwriter
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 650 | #36,940 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 647 | #34,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 617 | #34,673 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 100 | #15,405 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 47 | #24,239 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 17 | #100,824 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #34,559 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #55,024 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Widen mean, and where does it come from?
- To become wide or wider. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Widen?
- A machine transcription gives /waɪdən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Widen have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Widen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled widen.
- Where is Widen most common?
- Widen is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Widen?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2,648 people named Widen, about 1 in 3.9 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/widenThe 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, “Widen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.