Hofstede
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɔfstɛd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hofstede is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 6K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 241K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,868 people, 2007
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hofstede 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 | #557 | 2,868 | 1 in 6K | 2.9K | Hofstede | 70 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Hofstede | 1 |
| US United States | — | 138 | 1 in 2.4M | 138 | Hofstede | 111 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 801K | — | Hofstede | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 392K | — | Hofstede | 50 |
| BE Belgium | — | 25 | 1 in 469K | 25 | Hofstede | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Hofstede | 3 |
2,868 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Petrus Hofstedeb. 1755BEDutch politician
- Cornelius Müller-Hofstedeb. 1898DEGerman art historian
- Peter Hofstedeb. 1924NLsociologist
- Geert Hofstedeb. 1928NLDutch psychologist (1928-2020)
- Albert Hofstedeb. 1940USAmerican mayor (1940–2016)
- Henk Hofstedeb. 1951NLDutch singer
- Hilarius Hofstedeb. 1965NLDanish artist (born 1965)
- Bregje Hofstedeb. 1988NLDutch journalist
- Tim Hofstedeb. 1989NLDutch footballer
- Lennard Hofstedeb. 1994NLDutch road cyclist
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.9K | #375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 138 | #124,548 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 136 | #118,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 133 | #132,523 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 25 | #41,784 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Hofstede?
- A machine transcription gives /hɔfstɛd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hofstede have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Hofstede, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hofstede.
- Where is Hofstede most common?
- Hofstede is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hofstede?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,868 people named Hofstede in 2007, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Hofstede compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hofstede is the 557th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hofstede?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hofstedeThe 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, “Hofstede” — the 557th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.