Friesland
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: Friesland (a province of the Netherlands)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Friesland is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- FIFinland
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Frisia (a traditionally Frisian-speaking coastal Western Europe, politically split between Netherlands and Germany)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Friesland is read(measured from records)
Friesland is one spelling over 2 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.
- Dutch23%
Friesland (a province of the Netherlands)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.9%
Frisia (a traditionally Frisian-speaking coastal Western Europe, politically split between Netherlands and Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Toponymischer Familienname zu dem Orts-/Landschaftsnamen Friesland; 14 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 196 | #98,894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 173 | #103,655 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 157 | #105,374 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Friesland come from?
- Frisia (a traditionally Frisian-speaking coastal Western Europe, politically split between Netherlands and Germany) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Friesland mean?
- In Dutch, Friesland (a province of the Netherlands)
- In which country does Friesland have the most bearers?
- Friesland is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Friesland?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frieslandThe 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, “Friesland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.