Names of Curaçao CW

CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023) records Maria as the commonest given name in Curaçao.

Written in Dutch, English, pap.

Population
151K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
5
BBuilt from 1 official register (2023), 5 name forms in our corpus, 4 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Curaçao

3 naming traditions are in use in Curaçao, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Curaçao

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023), 2023 — 9 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Maria1.6K—
2Ana428—
3Ingrid355—
4Sandra332—
5Jacqueline300—
6Marie289—
7Carmen276—
8Jean25—
9Jose8—

Where the two lists disagree

24 of CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023)'s top 24 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023) 2023Across all recordsjose: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. josenot rankedrobert: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. robertnot rankedcarlos: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. carlosnot rankedmichael: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. michaelnot rankedjean: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. jeannot rankedronald: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. ronaldnot rankedfranklin: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. franklinnot rankedjuan: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. juannot rankedluis: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. luisnot rankedanthony: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. anthonynot rankedkenneth: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. kennethnot rankedrichard: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. richardnot rankedhubert: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. hubertnot rankeddavid: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. davidnot rankededsel: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. edselnot rankeddaniel: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. danielnot rankedraymond: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. raymondnot rankedmarlon: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. marlonnot rankederwin: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. erwinnot rankedjonathan: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. jonathannot rankedstanley: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. stanleynot rankedgilbert: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. gilbertnot rankedhumphrey: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. humphreynot rankedmarie: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. marienot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023), 2023 on the left; every record we hold for Curaçao on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Scripts & spelling

Evertszsurname(measured from records)
Ortelasurname(measured from records)
Sontjegiven name(measured from records)
Marottasurname(measured from records)
Hasethsurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Curaçao, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Curaçao?
Jose, according to CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023) (2023), with 715 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Curaçao?
Because they count different people. CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023) (2023) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Jose. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Sontje. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Curaçao?
No — 3 are described on this page (Dutch, Papiamento, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Curaçao”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/CW (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023).