Wouter
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, akin to Walter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʋɑu̯tər/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wouter is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 464(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.6K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 12K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 464 (inferred from the name graph)
37,225 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a male given name, akin to Walter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wouter 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 | #80 | 37,225 | 1 in 464 | 37K | Wouter | 181 |
| BE Belgium | #258 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 2 | Wouter | 145 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Wouter | 53 |
| US United States | — | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 234 | Wouter | 163 |
| FR France | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 319K | listed | Wouter | 113 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Wouter | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 110 | Wouter | 15 |
37,225 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the french-names-benoist-2009 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wouter 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.
Dutch form of WALTER .
as a word
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)
- Walter, Count of Rethelb. 1201FRnot in their usual nameFrench nobleman
- Wouter Crabeth IIb. 1594NLDutch painter (1594-1644)
- Remco Campertb. 1929NLnot in their usual nameDutch writer (1929–2022)
- Wouter Kellermanb. 1961ZASouth African musician
- Wouter Barendrechtb. 1965NLDutch film producer (1965-2009)
- Wouter Hamelb. 1977NLDutch singer
- Gotyeb. 1980BEnot in their usual nameBelgian-Australian musician (born 1980)
- Wouter Janssenb. 1982NLDutch DJ, member of Showtek
- Wouter Weylandtb. 1984BEBelgian road bicycle racer (1984-2011)
- Wouter Burgerb. 2001NLassociation 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 37K | #59 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 27K | #94 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 234 | #34,742 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 110 | #7,303 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 68 | #229 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2016 | 61 | #259 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 45 | #9,002 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Wouter mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, akin to Walter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wouter?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋɑu̯tər/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Wouter a male or female name?
- Wouter 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 Wouter?
- In the etymology graph, Walter, Valter and Wally are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Wouter have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Wouter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wouter.
- Where is Wouter most common?
- Wouter is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 464 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wouter?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 37,225 people named Wouter, about 1 in 464 residents.
- How common is Wouter compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Wouter is the 80th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wouter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wouterThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Wouter” — the 80th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.