Volkers
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Volkers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 203K
- USUnited States1 in 687K
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
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,326 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Völkers in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Volkers 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 | 1,326 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Volkers | 52 |
| US United States | 484 | 1 in 687K | 565 | Volkers | 118 |
| BR Brazil | 430 | 1 in 492K | 430 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Völkers | 50 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 492K | — | Volkers | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 351K | — | Volkers | 31 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Volkers | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
1,326 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Emil Volkersb. 1831DEGerman painter (1831–1905)
- Karl Volkersb. 1868DEGerman horse painter
- Fritz Volkersb. 1868DEGerman painter
- Johannes Volkersb. 1878DEGerman theologian (1878–1944)
- Wim Volkersb. 1899NLDutch footballer and manager (1899-1990)
- Rick Volkersb. 1962NLDutch field hockey player (1962-)
- Claudia Volkersb. 1971DEGerman volleyball 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
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
- In which country does Volkers have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Volkers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled volkers.
- Where is Volkers most common?
- Volkers is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Volkers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,326 people named Volkers in 2007, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Volkers?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/volkersThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Volkers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.