Berends
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Berends is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In English, recorded as third-person singular simple present indicative of berend.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 64K
- USUnited States1 in 305K
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
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
4,938 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular simple present indicative of berend
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Berends is read(measured from records)
Berends is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English57%
third-person singular simple present indicative of berend
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch18%
a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Berends in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Berends 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 | #268 | 4,938 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.9K | Berends | 89 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Berends | 71 |
| US United States | — | 1,089 | 1 in 305K | 1.1K | Berends | 174 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Berends | 11 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Berends | 62 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Berends | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Berends | 2 |
4,938 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Carl August Wilhelm Berendsb. 1759DEGerman physician
- Julius Berendsb. 1817DEGerman politician (1817-1891)
- Johannes Hermanus Berendsb. 1868NLDutch old catholic bishop
- Fritz Berendsb. 1906DEGerman navy officer and world war II U-boat commander (1906-1945)
- Antonius Johannes Berendsb. 1916NLDutch politician (1916-2000)
- Frederik Allard Berendsb. 1938NLuniversity teacher at Leiden University
- Gerard B. Berendsb. 1946NLDutch creator
- Wolfgang Berendsb. 1966DEGerman translator and writer
- Hans Berendsb. 1972NLresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-3334-2926
- Ethan Berendsb. 1998AUAustralian 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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 4.9K | #166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 944 | #27,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 940 | #24,857 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Berends mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of berend Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Berends have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Berends, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berends.
- Where is Berends most common?
- Berends is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Berends?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,938 people named Berends in 2007, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Berends compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Berends is the 268th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Berends” — the 268th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.