Freek

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name; diminutive of Frederik

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Freek is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 33K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 37K

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)

3,749 people

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name; diminutive of Frederik

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Freek 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.

Where Freek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#3633,7491 in 4.6K3.7KFreek106
ZA South Africa—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 33K—Freek20
BE Belgium—≈310 est.≈1 in 37K—Freek37
DE Germany—≈100 est.≈1 in 770K—Freek39
ID Indonesia—≈51 est.≈1 in 5.3M—Freek6
NO Norway—≈11 est.≈1 in 514K6Freek6

3,749 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Freek is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, South Africa

    Also written Frëêk

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Freek Raman, b. 1905Freek Gordijn, b. 1920Freek de Jonge, b. 1944Freek Lamain, b. 1958Freek Vonk, b. 1983Freek Thoone, b. 1985Freek Bartels, b. 1986Freek van der Wart, b. 1988Freek Heerkens, b. 1989Freek Golinski, b. 1991

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 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Freek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—3.7K#463
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.2K#1,010
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)201625#557
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—7#27,806
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—6#27,442

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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

What does the name Freek mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name; diminutive of Frederik Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Freek?
In the etymology graph, Fred, Frederick and Federico are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Freek a male or female name?
Freek is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Freek have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Freek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled freek.
Where is Freek most common?
Freek is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Freek?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,749 people named Freek, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
How common is Freek compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Freek is the 363rd most common given name of 101,916 given names 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, “Freek” — the 363rd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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