Drenth
surname · Latin script
Meaning: obsolete spelling of Drent
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdɹɛnθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Drenth is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- USUnited States
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
obsolete spelling of Drent
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Harry Powersb. 1892NLnot in their usual nameDutch-born American serial killer (1892-1932)
- Willem Drenthb. 1905NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Wiendelt Drenthb. 1925NLDutch university teacher
- Piet Drenthb. 1935NLDutch psychologist
- Jan Anne Drenthb. 1941NLDutch actor (born 1941)
- Elt Drenthb. 1949NLDutch swimmer (1949-1998)
- Jurjen Drenthb. 1955NLDutch photographer
- Max Drenthb. 1963NLDutch columnist, philosopher and writer
- Hanneke Drenthb. 1980NLDutch actress
- Hermijntje Drenthb. 1994NLDutch rower
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 4.4K | #203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 708 | #34,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 661 | #34,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 652 | #33,090 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 33 | #34,744 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,768 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #52,469 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #58,308 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #323,910 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 does the name Drenth mean, and where does it come from?
- obsolete spelling of Drent Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Drenth?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɹɛnθ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Drenth have the most bearers?
- Drenth is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/drenthThe 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Drenth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.