Cees
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/seːs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cees is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.6K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 139K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 151K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,019 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
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.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cees 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 | #179 | 2,019 | 1 in 8.6K | 2K | Cees | 139 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Cees | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 469K | — | Cees | 45 |
| US United States | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Cees | 89 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Cees | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Cees | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Cees | 9 |
2,019 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cees is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, chastity, a chaste widow, arches to chaste widows
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of cear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, plural of cee, the name of the letter C.
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)
- Cees Wilkeshuisb. 1896NLDutch writer (1896–1982)
- Cees Seeb. 1934NLDutch jazz drummer (1934–1985)
- Cees Haastb. 1938NLDutch cyclist (1938–2019)
- Cees Stamb. 1945NLcyclist
- Cees Priemb. 1950NLDutch cyclist
- Cees Balb. 1951NLDutch racing cyclist
- Cees Dekkerb. 1959NLDutch physicist
- Cees Geelb. 1965NLDutch actor (1965–2026)
- Cees Paauweb. 1977NLDutch footballer
- Cees Bolb. 1995NLDutch cyclist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2K | #690 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 715 | #2,550 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 42 | #9,389 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Cees?
- In the etymology graph, Kay, Connie and Kai are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Cornelis and Kerneels.
- How do you pronounce Cees?
- A machine transcription gives /seːs/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Cees a male or female name?
- Cees is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Cees have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Cees, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cees.
- Where is Cees most common?
- Cees is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cees?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,019 people named Cees, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Cees compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Cees is the 179th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cees?
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/ceesThe 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, “Cees” — the 179th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.