Coessens
surname · Dutch · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Coessens is a surname, most frequently recorded in Belgium. It appears chiefly in Dutch and German, written in the Latin script.
- BEBelgium1 in 21K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M
- FRFrance1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 1,854 | 88% |
| FR France | 108 | 5% |
| US United States | 76 | 4% |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1% |
| GB United Kingdom | 8 | 1% |
≈2,064 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Dutch1.3K62%
- German56327%
- French1186%
- English914%
- Spanish71%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | 1,308 | 62% |
| German | 563 | 27% |
| French | 118 | 6% |
| English | 91 | 4% |
| Spanish | 7 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Henri Victor Coessensb. 1930BEBelgian drawer
- Herman Coessensb. 1943BEBelgian actor (1943-2023)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 557 | #2,684 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 517 | #2,941 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-03 data build · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Coessens?
- Our records include 2,064 bearers of Coessens across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Coessens have the most bearers?
- Coessens is most frequently recorded in Belgium.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Coessens”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.