# Moens

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**Moens** is a [Dutch](/source/Dutch_language) [patronymic surname](/source/Patronymic_surname) meaning "son of "Mo(e)n", a short form of [Simon](/source/Simon_(given_name)) particularly common in [East Flanders](/source/East_Flanders). [\[1\]](http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=Moens&nfd_naam=Moens&info=analyse%20en%20verklaring&operator=eq&taal=)[\[2\]](https://web.archive.org/web/20191022195142/http://www.familienaam.be/)

People with this name include

- [Adriaan Isebree Moens](/source/Adriaan_Isebree_Moens) (1846–1891), Dutch physician and physiologist - [Moens–Korteweg equation](/source/Moens%E2%80%93Korteweg_equation), biomechanic equation derived by Adriaan Isebree
- [Alex Moens](/source/Alex_Moens) (born 1959), Canadian political scientist
- [Cecilia Moens](/source/Cecilia_Moens), American developmental biologist
- [Georges Moens de Fernig](/source/Georges_Moens_de_Fernig) (1899–1978), Belgian government minister
- [Jean-Baptiste Moens](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Moens) (1833–1908), Belgian philatelist, first dealer in stamps for collectors
- [Marc Moens](/source/Marc_Moens) (born 1959), Belgian sprint canoeist
- [Oscar Moens](/source/Oscar_Moens) (born 1973), Dutch football goalkeeper
- [Petronella Moens](/source/Petronella_Moens) (1762–1843), Dutch writer, editor and feminist
- [Roger Moens](/source/Roger_Moens) (born 1930), Belgian middle-distance runner
- [Wies Moens](/source/Wies_Moens) (1898–1982), Belgian literary historian, poet and pamphleteer

## Moëns

- [William John Charles Möens](/source/William_John_Charles_M%C3%B6ens) (1833–1904), English writer and antiquarian

## See also

- [Moen (surname)](/source/Moen_(surname))
- [Moons](/source/Moonen) and [Moonen](/source/Moonen), Dutch surnames of the same origin

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