Machiel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Machiel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 26K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
5,878 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Machiel 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 | 5,878 | 1 in 2.9K | 5.8K | Machiel | 89 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Machiel | 17 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Machiel | 7 |
| US United States | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Machiel | 56 |
| BE Belgium | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 355K | — | Machiel | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 729K | — | Machiel | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
5,878 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Machiel Hendricus Laddéb. 1866NLDutch film director and photographer (1866–1932)
- Michel Byttebierb. 1898BEnot in their usual nameFlemish politician
- Machiel Zeegersb. 1916NLDutch university professor (1916–2000)
- Rob Mokb. 1932NLnot in their usual nameDutch jurist (1932–2019)
- Machiel Kielb. 1938NLDutch architectural historian and Ottomanist
- Machiel Evert Noordeloosb. 1949NLDutch mycologist
- Machiel Spaanb. 1966NLDutch architect
- Machiel van Frankenhuijsenb. 1967NLDutch mathematician
- Machiel van Soestb. 1968NLDutch painter
- Machiel de Graafb. 1969NLDutch politician, salesmanager and physical therapist
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 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5.8K | #339 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 3K | #1,060 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 31 | #11,281 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Is Machiel a male or female name?
- Machiel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Machiel have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Machiel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled machiel.
- Where is Machiel most common?
- Machiel is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Machiel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,878 people named Machiel, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Machiel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/machielThe 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, “Machiel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.