Dijkstra
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛi̯kstraː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dijkstra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From West Frisian Dykstra.
- NLNetherlands1 in 735(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 57K
- SESweden1 in 104K
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
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 735 (inferred from the name graph)
23,510 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- West FrisianDykstra(measured from records)
- West Frisian Dykstraor(inferred from the name graph)via Dykstra
- Old Frisiandik“dike”(inferred from the name graph)via Dykstra
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From West Frisian Dykstra.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dijkstra 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 | #23 | 23,510 | 1 in 735 | 24K | Dijkstra | 156 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Dijkstra | 55 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Dijkstra | 12 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Dijkstra | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 412K | 12 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 110 | 1 in 107K | 110 | Dijkstra | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 98 | 1 in 104K | 98 | Dijkstra | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 96 | 1 in 57K | 96 | Dijkstra | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 62 | 1 in 136K | 62 | Dijkstra | 10 |
23,510 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Lou Dijkstrab. 1909NLDutch speed skater (1909-1964)
- Bert Dijkstrab. 1920NLDutch actor (1920-2003)
- Edsger W. Dijkstrab. 1930NLDutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
- Sjoukje Dijkstrab. 1942NLDutch figure skater (1942-2024)
- Truus Dijkstrab. 1951NLDutch speed skater
- Pia Dijkstrab. 1954NLDutch politician and television presenter
- Rineke Dijkstrab. 1959NLDutch photographer (born 1959)
- Lenie Dijkstrab. 1967NLDutch racing cyclist
- Remco Dijkstrab. 1972NLDutch politician
- Peter Dijkstrab. 1978NLDutch conductor
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24K | #14 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 110 | #14,375 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 98 | #7,333 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 96 | #15,760 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 62 | #15,845 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Dijkstra mean, and where does it come from?
- From West Frisian Dykstra. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Dijkstra?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛi̯kstraː/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Dijkstra have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Dijkstra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dijkstra.
- Where is Dijkstra most common?
- Dijkstra is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 735 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dijkstra?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23,510 people named Dijkstra in 2007, about 1 in 735 residents.
- How common is Dijkstra compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Dijkstra is the 23rd most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dijkstra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dijkstraThe 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, “Dijkstra” — the 23rd most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.