Limbourg
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Limbourg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Limburg (a province of the Netherlands).
- BEBelgium1 in 11K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 18Kas Limburg
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 51Kas Limburg
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Limbourg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
1,092 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Limburg in NL Netherlands, ES Spain.
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(measured from records)
Limburg (a province of the Netherlands)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Limbourg 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 1,092 | 1 in 11K | 1.1K | Limbourg | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 950as Limburg | 1 in 18K | 950 | Limburg | 13 |
| US United States | 605as Limburg | 1 in 550K | 633 | Limbourg | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | 20as Limburg | 1 in 420K | 20 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 13as Limburg | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | Limburg | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 4as Limburg | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 2as Limburg | 1 in 51K | 2 | — | — |
1,092 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
- Henri Limbourgb. 1834FRFrench official (1834–1921)
- Karl Limbourgb. 1856DEGerman public servant (1856-1912)
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.1K | #1,197 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1K | #1,279 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 55 | #29,156 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Limbourg mean, and where does it come from?
- Limburg (a province of the Netherlands) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Limbourg have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Limbourg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled limbourg.
- Where is Limbourg most common?
- Limbourg is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Limbourg?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,092 people named Limbourg in 2008, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/limbourgThe 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, “Limbourg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.