Hemmes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place called Hemme, named with the Germanic element hamm, hemm ‘water meadow’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/hɛ.məs/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Hemmes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 22K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 440Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 530Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
779 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from a place called Hemme, named with the Germanic element hamm, hemm ‘water meadow’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hemmes 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 | — | 779 | 1 in 22K | 779 | Hemmes | 37 |
| US United States | — | 277 | 1 in 1.2M | 287 | Hemmes | 111 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 438K | — | Hemmes | 32 |
| LR Liberia | #878 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Hemmes | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 535K | — | Hemmes | 34 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Hemmes | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 414K | — | Hemmes | 12 |
779 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Hemmes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, passive form of hemme
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wilhelm Hemmesb. 1840DEGerman author (1840–1925)
- Rudi Hemmesb. 1923NLRoyal Netherlands Air Force major-general
- Fred Hemmesb. 1950NLDutch tennis player
- Nina Hemmesb. 1983DEGerman ice hockey player
- Sven Hemmesb. 1989NLDutch handball player
- Bart Hemmesb. 2000NLDutch politician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 779 | #2,305 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 287 | #72,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 277 | #70,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 258 | #70,679 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hemmes mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place called Hemme, named with the Germanic element hamm, hemm ‘water meadow’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hemmes?
- In Dutch /hɛ.məs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hemmes have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 779 people named Hemmes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hemmes.
- Where is Hemmes most common?
- Hemmes is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hemmes?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 779 people named Hemmes in 2007, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Hemmes compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Hemmes is the 878th most common surname of 10,200 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/hemmesThe 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, “Hemmes” — the 878th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.