Huisman

surname · Latin script

Meaning: status name for someone who lived in a house, as opposed to a cottage, or who owned his own house (see House 1), from huis ‘house’ + man ‘man’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Huisman is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands
  • CACanada
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

status name for someone who lived in a house, as opposed to a cottage, or who owned his own house (see House 1), from huis ‘house’ + man ‘man’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Huisman is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree or a holly grove. Middle Dutch huis ‘holly’ -iman ‘man’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Dutch, a free commoner

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Georges Huisman, b. 1889Maurice Huisman, b. 1912Wim Huisman, b. 1923Denis Huisman, b. 1929Mirjam Schilperoord-Huisman, b. 1950Bruno Huisman, b. 1953Patrick Huisman, b. 1966Michiel Huisman, b. 1981Mariska Huisman, b. 1983Josje Huisman, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Huisman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200715K#26
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,671
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,043
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,506
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—317#5,115
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—151—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008126#12,823
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—81#32,143
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—81#31,848
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—64#10,265
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—38—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202425#31,192

Reference works 5

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Huisman mean, and where does it come from?
status name for someone who lived in a house, as opposed to a cottage, or who owned his own house (see House 1), from huis ‘house’ + man ‘man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Huisman have the most bearers?
Huisman is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.

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About this data

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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Huisman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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