Meertens' Dutch surname database lists 94143 different family names; the total Dutch speaking population in Europe is estimated to be about 23 million people. Dutch Last Names Though many Dutch names have a significant origin, others translate to rather hilarious terms. De Jong (86,534 in 2007) De Jong literally means The Young.
Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. Surname Database This Database of Surnames in the Netherlands presents the 300,000 surnames of all persons with the Dutch nationality, who lived in the Netherlands in the year 2007. Due to the particulars of what each list represents, some individuals can have their names listed on more than one list. 1. This database includes 24,163 records of survivors accounted for as "Dutch" survivors. Jan's daughter Grietje would use the surname Jans or Jansdr. The new database is the complement of the Dutch Family Name Bank. 40f – Alphabetical List of Jews registered in the Dutch liberated area; Database. More than 5% of the people in the Netherlands had one of these ten last names. The ten most popular surnames in the Netherlands in 2007 were De Jong, Jansen, De Vries, Van den Berg, Van Dijk, Bakker, Janssen, Visser, Smit and Meijer.
The Dutch or British flag in the upper left corner lets you switch between the two. This means that if you want to find your Dutch surname in a Dutch database or official record, you need to type it without the prefix. The database sports both a Dutch and an English home page. This change occurred at different periods in different regions. Dutch Given Name Database. Another important thing to know about Dutch surnames is that people in The Netherlands did not start using them until the beginning of the 1800’s. When Napoleon and the French occupied the Netherlands, they required the Dutch to create surnames for taxation and census purposes. It's interesting to note that about 4.6% of all Danes living in Denmark today have the Jensen surname and about 1/3 of the entire population of Denmark carries one of the top 15 surnames from this list. The origin of your Dutch surname The Meertens Institute is an institute that researches Dutch language and culture. Jan's son Willem would be known as Willem Jans/Jansz/Janszoon or something similar. For example, surnames were largely adopted between the 11th and 16th centuries in England, between the 16th and 19th centuries in Wales and between the 11th and 19th centuries in Scotland. In England this was known as Poll Tax. The most common Dutch surnames in the Netherlands (as of 1947) and Flanders in Belgium are listed to the right. They are also doing research into the origins and development of surnames in the Netherlands, and have published a large database of surnames and their meanings and origins.
Also included are about 110,000 family names registered at the census from 1947. The most common Dutch names in Belgium are nearly all patronymic "father-based" names in which they are composed with … The following list of the most commonly occurring Danish surnames includes details on each last name's origin and meaning. Surnames only arose when families decided they were going to stick to a 'pseudo-surname''. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. Prior to the introduction of surnames, the Dutch used a system of patronymics - the surname of the child reflected the first name of the father - similar to the system used in the Scandinavian countries. That database has information on family names, the new database has information on given names. A collection of genealogical profiles related to Dutch Jewish Online Databases