Meijer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Meyer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛi̯ər/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meijer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 449(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 16Kas Major
- SESweden1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meijer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 449 (inferred from the name graph)
38,472 people, 2007
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Meyer.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meijer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #15 | 38,472 | 1 in 449 | 38K | Meijer | 178 |
| US United States | — | 20,977as Major | 1 in 16K | 21K | Meijer | 161 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,814as Major | 1 in 21K | 938 | Meijer | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,516as Major | 1 in 140K | 1.5K | Meijer | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,419 | 1 in 7.2K | 1.4K | Meijer | 55 |
| HR Croatia | — | 293as Major | 1 in 14K | 293 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 270as Major | 1 in 2.8K | 270 | — | — |
38,472 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tante Truusb. 1896NLnot in their usual nameDutch Righteous Among the Nations (1896-1978)
- Henny Meijerb. 1962NLDutch association football player
- Erik Meijerb. 1963NLDutch computer scientist
- Theo Meijerb. 1965NLDutch judoka
- Erik Meijerb. 1969NLDutch footballer
- Elien Meijerb. 1970NLDutch rower
- Rogier Meijerb. 1981NLDutch football manager and former professional footballer
- Lukas Meijerb. 1988SESwedish musician and vocalist
- Peter Meijerb. 1988USU.S. Representative from Michigan
- Bjorn Meijerb. 2003NLDutch footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 38K | #6 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.4K | #715 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 451 | #50,158 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 375 | #52,077 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 288 | #68,345 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 28 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 28 | #73,380 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,529 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meijer mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Meyer. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Meijer?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛi̯ər/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Meijer have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Meijer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meijer.
- Where is Meijer most common?
- Meijer is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 449 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meijer?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 38,472 people named Meijer in 2007, about 1 in 449 residents.
- How common is Meijer compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Meijer is the 15th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meijerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meijer” — the 15th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.