Daems
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɑɛms/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Daems is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 31Kas Dams
- DEGermany≈1 in 61Kas Dams
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Daems 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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,337 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dams in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, PL Poland and 2 more.
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
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)
Daems 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #155 | 4,337 | 1 in 2.7K | 4.3K | Daems | 86 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Dams | 85 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 561as Dams | 1 in 31K | 561 | Dams | 45 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 714K | — | Dams | 17 |
| PL Poland | — | 294as Dams | 1 in 130K | 149 | Dams | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Dams | 2 |
4,337 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the dfa-band-1 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Willem Frans Daemsb. 1911NLDutch pharmacist
- Jos Daemsb. 1926BEBelgian politician (1926-1983)
- Emile Daemsb. 1938BEBelgian cyclist (1938–2024)
- Herman Daemsb. 1946BEBelgian economist
- Wim Daemsb. 1948BEBelgian writer (1948-2009)
- Rik Daemsb. 1959BEBelgian painter and politician (born 1959)
- Anne Daemsb. 1966BEBelgian artist (born 1966)
- Anja Daemsb. 1968BETV personality
- Filip Daemsb. 1978BEBelgian footballer
- Jeanine Daemsb. 1980NLDutch mathematician and author
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4.3K | #144 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 4.1K | #149 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 533 | #3,614 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #256,502 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
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 Daems?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑɛms/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Daems have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Daems, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daems.
- Where is Daems most common?
- Daems is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Daems?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 4,337 people named Daems in 2008, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Daems compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Daems is the 155th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Daems?
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/daemsThe 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, “Daems” — the 155th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.