Nijdam
surname · Latin script
/nɛi̯dɑm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nijdam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 10K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.1M
- NONorway1 in 1.4M
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
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
1,674 people, 2007
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nijdam 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 | 1,674 | 1 in 10K | 1.7K | Nijdam | 63 |
| FR France | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Nijdam | 59 |
| DE Germany | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Nijdam | 17 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Nijdam | 23 |
| SE Sweden | 9 | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | Nijdam | 5 |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | Nijdam | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Nijdam | 5 |
1,674 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Trijntje Nijdamb. 1892NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Sybout Jacob Nijdamb. 1905NLDutch poet
- Henk Nijdamb. 1935NLDutch road bicycle racer (1935–2009)
- Itty Sluisb. 1939NLnot in their usual nameDutch writer
- Jelle Nijdamb. 1963NLroad bicycle racer
- Robert Nijdamb. 1971NLhandball coach
- Riny NijdamNLDutch speed skater
- Celia Nijdamhistorian
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 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.7K | #822 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #42,122 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #72,393 |
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
- How do you pronounce Nijdam?
- A machine transcription gives /nɛi̯dɑm/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Nijdam have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Nijdam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nijdam.
- Where is Nijdam most common?
- Nijdam is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nijdam?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,674 people named Nijdam in 2007, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nijdam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nijdamThe 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, “Nijdam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.