Groeneveld

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Dutch: habitational name from any of various minor places named Groeneveld, from Middle Dutch groene ‘green’ -i- veld ‘pasture’

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

/ˈɡɹoʊnɪvɪɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Groeneveld is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 87K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 78K

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)

8,714 people, 2007

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GroeneveldLatin(measured from records)
โครนีเวลThai(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Toponymic surname from a place/landscape term meaning ‘green field’; bearer count 587.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Groeneveld is read(measured from records)

Groeneveld 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.

  • English44%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Groeneveld in English.

  • Dutch36%

    habitational name from any of various minor places named Groeneveld, from Middle Dutch groene ‘green’ -i- veld ‘pasture’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    a neighbourhood of Almelo, Overijssel, Netherlands

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German8.6%

    Toponymic surname from a place/landscape term meaning ‘green field’; bearer count 587.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

    Toponymic surname from Dutch groen/ groene + veld ‘green field, meadow’; mainly Dutch/Low German spelling with V. Bearer counts: 370+10 (Gr(oe/ö)neveld), 10+16 (Löv(v)elt), 24 (Wester-), 23 (Heusink-), 21 (Breed-), 20 (Zonne-), 16 (Sonne-), 12 (Boes-), 12 (Bruns-), 11 (Maarleveld), 11 (von Merveldt), 11 (Oosterveld), 10 (Leliveldt), 10 (Rietveld).

    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)

Groeneveld 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 Groeneveld is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#1498,7141 in 2K8.7KGroeneveld103
DE Germany—≈920 est.≈1 in 87K—Groeneveld70
US United States—6971 in 477K697Groeneveld105
ZA South Africa—≈370 est.≈1 in 152K—Groeneveld12
CA Canada—≈260 est.≈1 in 148K—Groeneveld22
EE Estonia—≈16 est.≈1 in 78Klisted—3

8,714 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. 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)

Groeneveld is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gròeneveld

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Russia, United States

    Also written Груневельд

30 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)

1850190019502000Thamine Tadama-Groeneveld, b. 1871Luise Schapp, b. 1912Sven Groeneveld, b. 1965Phil Groeneveld, b. 1974Warren Groeneveld, b. 1983Willem Groeneveld, b. 1990Daphne Groeneveld, b. 1994Arnaut Groeneveld, b. 1997

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)

FormalDear Groeneveld,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Groeneveld
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20078.7K#63
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010697#32,900
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000687#31,774
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020668#36,101
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

Where does the name Groeneveld come from?
Toponymic surname from a place/landscape term meaning ‘green field’; bearer count 587. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
How do you pronounce Groeneveld?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹoʊnɪvɪɫd/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Groeneveld mean?
In Dutch, habitational name from any of various minor places named Groeneveld, from Middle Dutch groene ‘green’ -i- veld ‘pasture’.
In which country does Groeneveld have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Groeneveld, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled groeneveld.
Where is Groeneveld most common?
Groeneveld is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Groeneveld?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 8,714 people named Groeneveld in 2007, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
How common is Groeneveld compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Groeneveld is the 149th 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, “Groeneveld” — the 149th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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