The Dahlen surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,999 people carried this name — #14,827 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 147,100 people counted. That is down 3% from 2,061 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 67 people named Dahlen.
5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 6 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
3,455 people named Dahlen are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Dahlen in American newspapers,
1911–1913.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 25,751 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Dahlen,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bill Dahlen 1870–1950 · baseball player -
Bill Dahlen 1870–1950 · baseball player -
Adam Dahlen 1610–1681 · prior
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Reiner Dahlen 1837–1874 · artist
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Bill Dahlen 1870–1950 · baseball player
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Paul Dahlen 1881–1954 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dahlen.
- Dagostino 8,388 · U.S. census
- Dague 1,529 · U.S. census
- Dahan 853 · U.S. census
- Daher 1,530 · U.S. census
- Dahl 21,598 · U.S. census
- Dahlem 627 · U.S. census
- Dahlmann 202 · U.S. census
- Dahm 2,107 · U.S. census
- Dahman 401 · U.S. census
- Daigle 14,084 · U.S. census
- Daigneau 278 · U.S. census
- Daigre 602 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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