Sjoerd
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sjoerd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 74K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 137K
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
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
16,685 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sjoerd 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 | #171 | 16,685 | 1 in 1K | 17K | Sjoerd | 161 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Sjoerd | 42 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Sjoerd | 24 |
| US United States | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Sjoerd | 87 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 497K | — | Sjoerd | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Sjoerd | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 214K | 44 | — | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Sjoerd | 11 |
16,685 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Sjoerd Kuyperb. 1952NLDutch writer and screenwriter
- Sjoerd Pleijsierb. 1954NLDutch actor (born 1954)
- Sjoerd Sjoerdsmab. 1981NLDutch politician
- Sjoerd Oostrikb. 1981NLDutch film director
- Sjoerd Hamburgerb. 1983NLDutch rower
- Sjoerd Arsb. 1984NLDutch footballer
- Sjoerd Janssenb. 1984NLDutch DJ and record producer, member of Showtek
- Sjoerd Hoogendoornb. 1991NLDutch volleyball player
- Sjoerd van Ginnekenb. 1992NLcyclist
- Sjoerd Baxb. 1996NLDutch cyclist
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 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 17K | #147 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13K | #297 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2016 | 63 | #252 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 51 | #302 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44 | #6,807 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #26,945 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 16 | #16,901 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Sjoerd a male or female name?
- Sjoerd is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Sjoerd?
- In the etymology graph, Sigurd, Sigvard and Sigurður are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sjoerd have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Sjoerd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sjoerd.
- Where is Sjoerd most common?
- Sjoerd is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sjoerd?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 16,685 people named Sjoerd, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Sjoerd compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Sjoerd is the 171st most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sjoerd?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sjoerdThe 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, “Sjoerd” — the 171st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.