Yenen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Üstün gelen, kazanan
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/jen̪en̪/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Yenen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
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
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)
5 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Üstün gelen, kazanan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yenen 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 | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Yenen | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Yenen | 34 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Yenen | 13 |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Yenen | 12 |
5 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ali Galip Yenenb. 1876TRTurkish statesperson (1876–1948)
- Şerif Yenenb. 1963TRTurkish writer (born 1963)
- Alp Yenenb. 1982TRTurkish Turkologist and historian (born 1982)
- Aykun Yenenb. 1986TRTurkish association football player (born 1986)
- Tuba Yakanb. 1991TRnot in their usual nameTurkish karateka (born 1991)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #78,275 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #202,356 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Yenen?
- In Turkish /jen̪en̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Yenen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Üstün gelen, kazanan.
- In which country does Yenen have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 5 people named Yenen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yenen.
- Where is Yenen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yenen is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.1 million people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yenen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Yenen in 2007, about 1 in 3.5 million 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/yenenThe 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, “Yenen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.