Heemskerk
loc · Latin script
Heemskerk is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. Recorded meaning: First attested as heimethenkiricha and heimezenkyrke in the first half of the 11th century. Compound of Old Dutch Hemezo (“a personal name”) or Heimezo and kirika (“church”).
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
- FRFrance
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)
First attested as heimethenkiricha and heimezenkyrke in the first half of the 11th century. Compound of Old Dutch Hemezo (“a personal name”) or Heimezo and kirika (“church”). The surname derives from the toponym.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Egbert van Heemskerkb. 1676GBpainter from the Northern Netherlands (died 1744)
- Jan Heemskerk Azn.b. 1818NLDutch politician (1818-1897)
- Theo Heemskerkb. 1852NLDutch politician (1852-1932)
- Fenny Heemskerkb. 1919NLDutch chess player (1919–2007)
- Reinata Heemskerkb. 1935NLDutch singer
- Jan Heemskerkb. 1937NLDutch journalist (1937-2021)
- Joan Heemskerkb. 1968NLartist (born 1968)
- Mark Heemskerkb. 1976NLuniversity teacher
- Femke Heemskerkb. 1987NLDutch swimmer
- Kees Heemskerkb. 1991NLDutch association football player
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 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5K | #160 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 101 | #15,484 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 37 | #55,477 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 37 | #54,555 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #34,511 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #69,519 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #336,954 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #224,537 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Heemskerk mean, and where does it come from?
- First attested as heimethenkiricha and heimezenkyrke in the first half of the 11th century. Compound of Old Dutch Hemezo (“a personal name”) or Heimezo and kirika (“church”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Heemskerk have the most bearers?
- Heemskerk is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heemskerkThe 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, “Heemskerk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.