Hiemstra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from hiem ‘(farm)yard’, ‘area around a farmhouse’ + the locative agent suffix -stra
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhimstɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hiemstra is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- USUnited States
- CACanada
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)
topographic name from hiem ‘(farm)yard’, ‘area around a farmhouse’ + the locative agent suffix -stra.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hiemstra 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 English, A surname from West Frisian.
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)
- Piet Hiemstrab. 1878NLDutch politician (1878-1953)
- Broer Hiemstrab. 1911NLPh.D. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 1938
- Kai Hiemstrab. 1938DEGerman entrepreneur (1938-2015)
- Klaske Hiemstrab. 1954NLDutch writer
- Gerrit Hiemstrab. 1961NLDutch weather forecaster
- Djoerd Hiemstrab. 1971NLDutch computer scientist
- Bert Hiemstrab. 1973NLDutch bicycle racer
- Femke Hiemstrab. 1974NLDutch painter
- Anno Wietze Hiemstrab. 1978NLDutch politician
- Geertje Hiemstrab. 1983NLDutch 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 4.1K | #226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 871 | #29,014 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 853 | #28,065 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 812 | #27,848 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 17 | #53,444 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 17 | #26,483 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,004 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
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 Hiemstra mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from hiem ‘(farm)yard’, ‘area around a farmhouse’ + the locative agent suffix -stra. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hiemstra?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhimstɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hiemstra have the most bearers?
- Hiemstra is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiemstraThe 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, “Hiemstra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.