Hamstra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone living on a flood plain or water meadow, or land in a river bend, from a locative agent noun derived from Middle Low German ham ‘flood plain’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhæmstɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hamstra 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)
topographic name for someone living on a flood plain or water meadow, or land in a river bend, from a locative agent noun derived from Middle Low German ham ‘flood plain’. Compare Hamme.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hamstra 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 Swedish, to hoard or gather, to stock up, to collect (large) stocks for later use (like a hamster hides food in its cheeks)
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)
- Gerrit Hamstrab. 1891NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Gerry Hamstrab. 1970NLDutch association football player
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.9K | #674 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 864 | #29,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 785 | #29,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 739 | #29,964 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #88,882 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #263,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Hamstra come from?
- topographic name for someone living on a flood plain or water meadow, or land in a river bend, from a locative agent noun derived from Middle Low German ham ‘flood plain’. Compare Hamme. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hamstra?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæmstɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hamstra mean?
- Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone living on a flood plain or water meadow, or land in a river bend, from a locative agent noun derived from Middle Low German ham ‘flood plain’.
- In which country does Hamstra have the most bearers?
- Hamstra is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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, “Hamstra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.