Dijk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dike
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛi̯k/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dijk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 8th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 16Kas Dick
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 54K
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 Dijk 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
20,923 named Dick, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled דיק in PL Poland.
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)
dike
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dijk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 20,923as Dick | 1 in 16K | 22K | Dijk | 157 |
| NL Netherlands | #8 | 3,981 | 1 in 4.3K | 7.1K | Dijk | 196 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,134as Dyk | 1 in 34K | 571 | דיק | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Dijk | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 874as Dick | 1 in 9.6K | 874 | Dijk | 20 |
| GY Guyana | — | 218as Dick | 1 in 3.4K | 218 | — | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 88as Dick | 1 in 1.2K | 88 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 40as Dick | 1 in 2.8K | 40 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | — | 28as Dick | 1 in 2.7K | 28 | — | — |
20,923 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling dick. 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dijk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, dike, levee
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)
- Hermina Maria Dijkb. 1821NLDutch composer (1821-1892)
- Henk Dijkb. 1920NLDutch wrestler
- Otto Dijkb. 1925NLDutch writer (1925-2004)
- Rob van Dijkb. 1943NLDutch musician and composer
- Nel van Dijkb. 1952NLDutch politician
- Hennie Dijkb. 1953NLDutch painter
- Herman Dijkb. 1955NLDutch politician (1955–2019)
- Koen van Dijkb. 1959NLDutch writer
- Hubert Dijkb. 1978NLDutch footballer
- Jimmy Dijkb. 1985NLDutch politician (born 1985)
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 4K | #231 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #218,171 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #220,429 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Dijk mean, and where does it come from?
- dike Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch.
- How do you pronounce Dijk?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛi̯k/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What are other forms of the name Dijk?
- In the etymology graph, Teich is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dijk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Dick, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dijk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dijk is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dijk?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,981 people named Dijk in 2007, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Dijk compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Dijk is the 8th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dijk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dijkThe 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, “Dijk” — the 8th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.