Nijman
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/nɛi̯mɑn/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Nijman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.5K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 83K
- BEBelgium1 in 510K
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
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
3,140 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Suriname, est.
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 the surname Nijman is found
(measured from records)Nijman 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 | #512 | 3,140 | 1 in 5.5K | 3.1K | Nijman | 77 |
| SR Suriname | #303 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Nijman | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Nijman | 21 |
| US United States | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 13M | listed | Nijman | 40 |
| FR France | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Nijman | 44 |
| BE Belgium | — | 23 | 1 in 510K | 23 | Nijman | 8 |
| GY Guyana | — | 9 | 1 in 83K | 9 | Nijman | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 4 |
3,140 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Hans Nijmanb. 1959NLDutch martial artist (1959-2014)
- Jerry Nijmanb. 1966NLDutch boxer
- Ruud Nijmanb. 1982NLDutch cricketer
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nijman?
- In Dutch /nɛi̯mɑn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nijman?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Nijman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nijman. After it come Suriname, Germany, United States and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nijman?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,140 people named Nijman in 2007, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Nijman compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Nijman is the 512th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nijman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nijmanThe 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, “Nijman” — the 512th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.