Alkema
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈæɫkɪmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alkema is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 236Kas Алькема(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 1.5Mas Алькема
- NLNetherlands1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alkema 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
1,518 people, 2007
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Алькема in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alkema 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 | 1,518 | 1 in 11K | 1.5K | Alkema | 4 |
| US United States | 423 | 1 in 786K | 441 | Alkema | 7 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 236K | — | Алькема | 16 |
| RU Russia | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Алькема | 64 |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 8 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
1,518 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Alkema 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.
In Basque, "(V-m), pez parecido al tollo y mielga (tiene pintas y no espinas)" A .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Wobbe Alkemab. 1900NLDutch painter (1900-1984)
- Henk Alkemab. 1912Dutch cyclist (1912-1944)
- Evert Alkemab. 1939NLDutch jurist
- Tjeerd Alkemab. 1942FRFrench sculptor
- Henk Alkemab. 1944NLDutch composer, pianist and musicologist (1944–2011)
- Leontine AlkemaUSbiostatistician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.5K | #963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 441 | #51,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 423 | #49,636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 395 | #49,869 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,544 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,218 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #148,568 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #160,528 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Alkema?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈæɫkɪmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Alkema have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Alkema, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alkema.
- Where is Alkema most common?
- Alkema is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Alkema?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,518 people named Alkema in 2007, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Alkema?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alkemaThe 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, “Alkema”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.