Surname ranking in the Netherlands

This ranking lists the 600 most common surnames in the Netherlands, ordered by the number of families that bear them. For each surname you will find its rank, the surname and the number of families; click a name to open the map of its distribution.

First place goes to De Jong, with 48,844 families, ahead of De Vries (41,588) and Jansen (39,870).

Dutch names are marked by prefixes: De Jong (“the young one”) leads, followed by De Vries (“the Frisian”); Vd Berg (Van den Berg, abbreviated in the source data) and Van Dijk come from places, Bakker, Visser and Smit from trades. Most families received fixed surnames only after the French decree of 1811. Read more on the Surname history page.

On this page: ranks 1 to 100, from De Jong (48,844 families) to Wolters (5,462 families).