Pieterse
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʰitɚs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pieterse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.4K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 95K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pieterse 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #155 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Pieterse | 87 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,695 | 1 in 6.4K | 2.7K | Pieterse | 64 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Pieterse | 73 |
| US United States | — | 184 | 1 in 1.8M | 231 | Pieterse | 103 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 390K | 124 | Pieterse | 54 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Pieterse | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Pieterse | 24 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- Constant Pieterseb. 1895NLDutch rower (1895-1992)
- Jan Pieterseb. 1942NLDutch racing cyclist
- Corné M.J. Pieterseb. 1964NLresearcher
- Edgar Pieterseb. 1968ZASouth African sociologist and political scientist
- Ronel Pieterseb. 1970ZAbadminton player
- Erasmus Pieterseb. 1983ZASouth African field hockey player
- Sasha Pieterseb. 1996ZASouth African actress, singer
- Ryno Pieterseb. 1998ZASouth African rugby union player
- Puck Pieterseb. 2002NLDutch cyclist
- Elsje PieterseZASouth African animal scientist
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.7K | #409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 231 | #86,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 184 | #98,553 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 124 | #28,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 120 | #130,443 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Pieterse?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰitɚs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pieterse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Pieterse in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pieterse.
- How common is the name Pieterse?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,695 people named Pieterse in 2007, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Pieterse compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Pieterse is the 155th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pieterse?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pieterseThe 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, “Pieterse” — the 155th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.