Doorn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: thorn, sharp extremity of a plant
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Doorn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 12K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 763K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 120K
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
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,461 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
thorn, sharp extremity of a plant
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Doorn 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 | 1,461 | 1 in 12K | 1.5K | Doorn | 126 |
| US United States | — | 436 | 1 in 763K | 458 | Doorn | 185 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Doorn | 55 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Doorn | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Doorn | 55 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Doorn | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Doorn | 1 |
1,461 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. 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)
- Anthony Pieter van Doornb. 1791NLDutch jurist
- Willem Doornb. 1836NLDutch vicar (1836 - 1908)
- William Doornb. 1901USAmerican politician
- Nicolaas Wilhelmus Doornb. 1901NLastronomer, Ph.D. Universiteit van Amsterdam 1929 (1901-)
- Jacques van Doornb. 1925NLDutch columnist and writer (1925–2008)
- Bert Doornb. 1949NLDutch politician
- Tiffany Doornb. 1982USBeauty queen
- Lisa Doornb. 2000NLassociation football player
- Hajo DoornNLDutch artist
- Jan Maarten van Doornresearcher
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.5K | #1,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 458 | #49,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 450 | #44,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 436 | #48,436 |
| 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
- What does the name Doorn mean, and where does it come from?
- thorn, sharp extremity of a plant Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Doorn?
- In the etymology graph, Dorn is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Doorn have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Doorn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doorn.
- Where is Doorn most common?
- Doorn is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Doorn?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,461 people named Doorn in 2007, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Doorn compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Doorn is the 80th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doornThe 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, “Doorn” — the 80th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.