Koen

Where Koen comes from

Borrowed from Dutch Koen.
— Wiktionary's entry for Koen
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1990
    Koen Verweij born
    Dutch speed skater
  2. 1992
    Koen Casteels born
    Belgian association football player
  3. 1996
    First appearance
    #9,015 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2023
    Peak, #605
    468 babies named Koen — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name of modern usage.
Namesakes
  • Koen Casteels · Belgian association football player, born 1992
  • Koen Verweij · Dutch speed skater, born 1990
  • Koen Bouwman · Dutch cyclist, born 1993
  • Koen Lenaerts · Belgian judge, professor. President of the European Court of Justice, born 1954
  • Koen de Kort · Dutch cyclist, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.