Luxembourgish Name Generator

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Browse 500 Luxembourgish names: everyday forms like Jang, Pit, Néckel, Ketti and Léini, the French and German register names behind them, surnames like Schmit, Thill and Kieffer, and full names such as Marguerite Reuland and Félix Reuter that pair a French first name with a German-origin surname.

About Luxembourgish names

Luxembourg runs on three languages, and its names show all of them at once. Luxembourgish is the national language and the one spoken at home, French is the language of law and most paperwork, and German is the third official language. So a man is registered as Jean, Pierre or Nicolas and answers to Jang, Pit or Néckel, and a Catherine is Ketti, Kätt or Tréin to her family.

Surnames come almost entirely from the German-speaking Moselle region, but generations of French-language record keeping left their mark on the spelling: Schmit has a single t, and Muller has dropped its umlaut. Most are trade names. Schmit is the smith, Muller the miller, Weber the weaver, Wagner the cartwright, Kieffer the cooper and Kremer the shopkeeper, while Faber and Molitor are the same smith and miller put into Latin. A French first name in front of one of these surnames, as in Marguerite Reuland or Jean-Paul Seil, is what sets a Luxembourgish name apart from a French, Belgian or German one.

The list mixes single given names, single surnames and full names. It keeps to the traditional stock, so it leaves out the Portuguese, Italian and other surnames that are just as much a part of the country today, where close to half of residents hold a foreign passport.

How to choose Luxembourgish names

  • Use two forms of the same first name. A character can be Nicolas on his identity card, Néckel to his grandmother and Nico to his friends, and the switch tells the reader who is speaking.
  • Keep the Luxembourg spellings: Schmit, Muller, Hoffmann, Schroeder, Kieffer. Writing Schmitt, Müller or Schröder moves the character across the border into Germany.
  • Match the first name to the generation. Aloyse, Gaston, Marguerite and Léonie suit grandparents, Guy, Carlo, Viviane and Joëlle their children, and Ben, Lynn, Anouk and Jil the youngest adults.
  • By custom a married woman may be known by her husband's surname joined to her birth name with a hyphen, as in Kremer-Schmit or Muller-Thill. It suits an older or more formal character.
  • Keep the accents. Luxembourgish spelling uses é, ë and ä, so Néckel, Wëllem, Änder and Fränz lose their sound when the marks are dropped.

Frequently asked questions

What are the most common surnames in Luxembourg?

Schmit, Muller, Weber, Hoffmann, Wagner and Thill are generally counted among the most common surnames in Luxembourg, along with Schmitz, Schroeder, Reuter, Klein, Becker, Kieffer and Kremer. Nearly all of them are German in origin, and many name a trade. Every one of them is in this list.

Why do Luxembourgers have French first names and German surnames?

The surnames were fixed centuries ago in a German-speaking farming region, so they are German. First names are recorded by the civil registry, where French has long been the main written language, so the official form is usually the French one: Jean rather than Johann, Pierre rather than Peter. In conversation people still use the Luxembourgish forms, such as Jang and Pit.

What are typical Luxembourgish short forms of first names?

Most traditional first names have an everyday Luxembourgish form. Jean is Jang or Jeng, Pierre is Pit, Nicolas is Néckel or Klos, Michel is Misch, François is Fränz, Charles is Charel, Georges is Schorsch and Guillaume is Wëllem. For women, Catherine gives Ketti, Kätt and Tréin, and Marguerite gives Gréit.

Are these the names of real people?

The given names, short forms and surnames are all in use in Luxembourg. The full names are everyday combinations of them, not a record of particular people, and the list has not been compared with any population register. With surnames as common as Schmit or Weber, a combination can match a living person by chance.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 31 names

  • Abbes
  • Alain Wagner
  • Albert Thoma
  • Aline
  • Aloyse
  • Aloyse Bausch
  • Alphonse Lentz
  • Aly
  • Aly Kugener
  • Änder
  • Änder Wagener
  • André Jacoby
  • Andrée
  • Andrée Scholtes
  • Anise
  • Anne
  • Anne Clemens
  • Anne-Marie
  • Anne-Marie Schroeder
  • Änni
  • Änni Schank
  • Anny
  • Anny Linden
  • Anouk
  • Anouk Pauly
  • Antoine Linden
  • Antoinette Diederich
  • Arendt
  • Armand Glesener
  • Astrid
  • Astrid Flammang

B: 16 names

  • Backes
  • Barbara
  • Batty
  • Batty Kirsch
  • Bausch
  • Becker
  • Becker-Hansen
  • Ben
  • Ben Zenner
  • Bernard Feller
  • Berthe Weber
  • Biever
  • Bintz
  • Blanche Kugener
  • Bob
  • Bob Weydert

C: 26 names

  • Camille
  • Camille Decker
  • Carlo
  • Carlo Diederich
  • Carole Siebenaler
  • Catherine
  • Catherine Dahm
  • Cécile Feller
  • Cédric Seil
  • Charel
  • Charel Frantz
  • Charles
  • Charles Schank
  • Charlotte
  • Charlotte Heinen
  • Chloé Wagner
  • Christiane Kass
  • Christophe Schlesser
  • Cindy Thewes
  • Claude Hoffmann
  • Claudine Duhr
  • Clemens
  • Colette
  • Colette Schaack
  • Conter
  • Corinne Welter

D: 10 names

  • Dahm
  • Dan Peiffer
  • Daniel Welter
  • Danielle Kohn
  • Decker
  • Denise Kieffer
  • Désirée
  • Diane Weicker
  • Diederich
  • Dominique Steinmetz

E: 17 names

  • Edouard Reding
  • Edy
  • Edy Thill
  • Elisabeth
  • Elise Glesener
  • Emile
  • Emile Lanners
  • Emilie Schiltz
  • Emma Steinmetz
  • Entringer
  • Erna
  • Ernest Kayser
  • Eugène
  • Eugène Thein
  • Eugénie
  • Eugénie Loesch
  • Ewen

F: 19 names

  • Faber
  • Faber-Steffen
  • Félix
  • Félix Reuter
  • Feller
  • Feltes
  • Fernand Goergen
  • Fischbach
  • Flammang
  • Francine Linden
  • François
  • François Clemens
  • Françoise Ries
  • Fränk
  • Frantz
  • Franz
  • Fränz
  • Fränz Hemmer
  • Funck

G: 28 names

  • Gast
  • Gast Molitor
  • Gaston
  • Gaston Hengen
  • Gengler
  • Georges Huberty
  • Georgette Weydert
  • Gérard Wampach
  • Germaine
  • Germaine Erpelding
  • Gillen
  • Gilles Trausch
  • Glesener
  • Goedert
  • Goergen
  • Graas
  • Greisch
  • Gréit
  • Gréit Feltes
  • Gréitchen
  • Guillaume
  • Guillaume Zahlen
  • Gust
  • Gustave Entringer
  • Gusty
  • Gusty Faber
  • Guy
  • Guy Wilmes

H: 17 names

  • Hamilius
  • Hansen
  • Hansen-Krier
  • Heinen
  • Hélène
  • Hélène Mersch
  • Hemmer
  • Heng
  • Heng Theis
  • Henri
  • Henri Peiffer
  • Henriette Wampach
  • Hentges
  • Hoffmann
  • Hoffmann-Schroeder
  • Hoscheit
  • Huberty

I: 2 names

  • Irène Kremer
  • Isabelle Kirsch

J: 55 names

  • Jacoby
  • Jang
  • Jang Weimerskirch
  • Jean
  • Jean Nilles
  • Jean Wagener
  • Jean-Claude
  • Jean-Claude Kirsch
  • Jean-Marie
  • Jean-Marie Duhr
  • Jean-Paul
  • Jean-Paul Seil
  • Jean-Pierre
  • Jean-Pierre Medinger
  • Jeanne Steinmetz
  • Jeannot
  • Jeannot Biever
  • Jeff Faber
  • Jemp
  • Jemp Steinmetz
  • Jempy
  • Jeng
  • Jérôme Mangen
  • Jessica Kremer
  • Jhemp
  • Jhemp Dondelinger
  • Jil
  • Jil Conter
  • Jo
  • Joé Weiler
  • Joëlle
  • Joëlle Becker
  • Johann
  • Johny
  • Johny Diederich
  • Jos
  • Jos Gales
  • Josée
  • Josée Weicker
  • Joseph
  • Joseph Scholtes
  • Joséphine
  • Joséphine Kemp
  • Joséphine-Charlotte
  • Josette
  • Josette Gengler
  • Josiane
  • Josiane Goergen
  • Josy
  • Josy Heinen
  • Joy Schroeder
  • Jules Goedert
  • Julie Weiler
  • Juncker
  • Jungels

K: 29 names

  • Kass
  • Katharina
  • Kätt
  • Kätt Thoma
  • Kauffmann
  • Kayser
  • Kemp
  • Ketti
  • Ketti Becker
  • Ketty
  • Ketty Kemp
  • Kevin Huberty
  • Kieffer
  • Kieffer-Muller
  • Kim Feltes
  • Kinsch
  • Kirchen
  • Kirsch
  • Klein
  • Klein-Wagner
  • Klopp
  • Klos
  • Kohn
  • Koster
  • Kremer
  • Kremer-Schmit
  • Krieps
  • Krier
  • Kugener

L: 33 names

  • Lamesch
  • Lanners
  • Lara Schmit
  • Laura Michels
  • Laurent Muller
  • Léini
  • Léini Schmit
  • Lena Schaus
  • Lentz
  • Léon
  • Léon Weimerskirch
  • Léonie
  • Léonie Hoffmann
  • Lex
  • Lex Duhr
  • Liliane Gillen
  • Lily
  • Lily Wirtz
  • Linden
  • Linster
  • Lis
  • Lis Arendt
  • Liz
  • Liz Kugener
  • Lorang
  • Lou
  • Luc Thinnes
  • Lucien
  • Lucien Reuland
  • Lydie
  • Lydie Wagner
  • Lynn
  • Lynn Hansen

M: 71 names

  • Madeleine
  • Madeleine Ewen
  • Mady
  • Mady Ries
  • Maisy
  • Maisy Lorang
  • Majerus
  • Majerus-Hoffmann
  • Malou
  • Malou Schaack
  • Mandy
  • Mandy Siebenaler
  • Marc Kugener
  • Marcel Siebenaler
  • Marcelle
  • Marcelle Bausch
  • Marco
  • Marco Olinger
  • Margaretha
  • Margot
  • Margot Hentges
  • Marguerite
  • Marguerite Reuland
  • Marianne Olinger
  • Marie
  • Marie Zeimet
  • Marie-Adélaïde
  • Marie-Anne
  • Marie-Anne Reuter
  • Marie-Jeanne
  • Marie-Jeanne Mertes
  • Marie-Josée
  • Marie-Josée Medinger
  • Marie-Paule
  • Marie-Paule Nickels

M, continued

  • Marie-Thérèse
  • Marie-Thérèse Entringer
  • Mariette
  • Mariette Majerus
  • Mars
  • Mars Backes
  • Martine Thinnes
  • Mathias
  • Mathias Heinen
  • Mathilde
  • Mathilde Meyer
  • Max Weis
  • Mersch
  • Mett
  • Mett Michels
  • Meyer
  • Meyer-Schiltz
  • Michel
  • Michel Felten
  • Michel Streff
  • Michèle
  • Michèle Biever
  • Mike Decker
  • Mill
  • Mill Steffen
  • Milly
  • Milly Rausch
  • Mimi
  • Mimi Nickels
  • Misch
  • Misch Gillen
  • Molitor
  • Monique Weis
  • Muller
  • Muller-Thill
  • Myriam Thewes

N: 22 names

  • Nancy
  • Nancy Weicker
  • Nathalie Schuller
  • Néckel
  • Néckel Glesener
  • Nelly
  • Nelly Feller
  • Netty
  • Netty Schiltz
  • Nic
  • Nico
  • Nicolas
  • Nicolas Pletschette
  • Nicolas Zenner
  • Nicole Weimerskirch
  • Nik
  • Nikolaus
  • Nilles
  • Noémie
  • Noémie Schlesser
  • Nora
  • Norbert Theis

O: 5 names

  • Oberweis
  • Octavie
  • Octavie Molitor
  • Olinger
  • Origer

P: 13 names

  • Pascal Backes
  • Patrick Reiles
  • Paul Nilles
  • Pauly
  • Peiffer
  • Peter
  • Pierre
  • Pierre Dondelinger
  • Pierre Weis
  • Pit
  • Pit Thinnes
  • Pol
  • Pol Reding

R: 16 names

  • Ralph Bausch
  • Raymond Kass
  • Reding
  • René Schaack
  • Reuland
  • Reuter
  • Reuter-Majerus
  • Ries
  • Robert Klopp
  • Roby
  • Roby Lentz
  • Roger Biever
  • Romain
  • Romain Dahm
  • Rosch
  • Rosch Klein

S: 35 names

  • Sam Schiltz
  • Sandy Duhr
  • Sarah Theis
  • Schaack
  • Schank
  • Schaus
  • Schiltz
  • Schleck
  • Schlesser
  • Schmit
  • Schmit-Weber
  • Schmitz
  • Schneider
  • Schneider-Welter
  • Scholtes
  • Schorsch
  • Schorsch Mangen
  • Schroeder
  • Schroeder-Ries
  • Serge Kieffer
  • Siebenaler
  • Simone Trausch
  • Spautz
  • Steffen
  • Steffen-Faber
  • Stéphanie Goedert
  • Steve Wilmes
  • Stoffel
  • Susanna
  • Suzanne
  • Suzanne Stoffel
  • Suzette
  • Suzette Wilmes
  • Sven Clemens
  • Sylvie Wantz

T: 20 names

  • Tessy
  • Tessy Schneider
  • Thein
  • Theis
  • Théo
  • Théodore Zeimet
  • Thérèse
  • Thérèse Krier
  • Thierry Rausch
  • Thill
  • Thill-Reuter
  • Thoma
  • Tilly
  • Tilly Felten
  • Tom Frantz
  • Trausch
  • Tréin
  • Tréin Siebenaler
  • Tun
  • Tun Medinger

V: 8 names

  • Véronique Wilmes
  • Vic
  • Vic Hansen
  • Vicky
  • Victor
  • Victor Flammang
  • Viviane
  • Viviane Wirtz

W: 18 names

  • Wagener
  • Wagner
  • Wagner-Klein
  • Wampach
  • Weber
  • Weber-Kieffer
  • Weiler
  • Weis
  • Weis-Kayser
  • Wëllem
  • Wëllem Loesch
  • Welter
  • Welter-Becker
  • Weydert
  • Will
  • Wilmes
  • Wiseler
  • Wolter

Y: 6 names

  • Yann Hengen
  • Yannick Welter
  • Yolande Kinsch
  • Yves Thewes
  • Yvonne
  • Yvonne Faber

Z: 3 names

  • Zahlen
  • Zeimet
  • Zoé Weber