Dekkers
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛkərs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dekkers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 18K
- NONorway1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
8,077 people, 2007
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dekkers 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 | 8,077 | 1 in 2.1K | 8.1K | Dekkers | 24 |
| BE Belgium | 657 | 1 in 18K | 657 | Dekkers | 4 |
| US United States | 214 | 1 in 1.6M | 251 | Dekkers | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 51 | 1 in 4.2M | 51 | Dekkers | 23 |
| ES Spain | 27 | 1 in 1.9M | 27 | Dekkers | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | — |
8,077 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tin Dekkersb. 1916NLDutch boxer (1916–2005)
- Hans Dekkersb. 1928NLRoad bicycle racer (1928-1984)
- Midas Dekkersb. 1946NLDutch biologist, journalist, writer
- Jeanne Dekkersb. 1953NLDutch architect and university professor (born 1953)
- Ad Dekkersb. 1953NLDutch cyclist
- Ramon Dekkersb. 1969NLDutch kickboxer (1969-2013)
- Hurnet Dekkersb. 1974NLDutch rower
- Hans Dekkersb. 1981NLDutch bicycle racer
- Joey Dekkersb. 1989NLDutch association football player
- Elizabeth Dekkersb. 2004AUAustralian swimmer
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Dekkers?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛkərs/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Dekkers have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 8.1 thousand people named Dekkers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dekkers.
- Where is Dekkers most common?
- Dekkers is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dekkers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 8,077 people named Dekkers in 2007, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dekkers?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dekkersThe 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, “Dekkers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.