Roelofs

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Roelofs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 92K
  • FIFinland1 in 192K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

6,985 people, 2007

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Roelofs 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.

Where Roelofs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands6,9851 in 2.5K7KRoelofs14
US United States1,0361 in 321K1.1KRoelofs11
BE Belgium1281 in 92K128—3
FI Finland291 in 192K29——
ES Spain281 in 1.8M28——
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11——

6,985 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Roelofs is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Russia, United States, Finland

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Рулофс

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Willem Roelofs, b. 1822Willem Roelofs, b. 1874Albert Roelofs, b. 1877Al Roelofs, b. 1906Annemarie Roelofs, b. 1955Sandra Roelofs, b. 1968Marco Roelofs, b. 1974Mike Roelofs, b. 1981Joris Roelofs, b. 1984Jan Roelofs, b. 1985

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 25 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Roelofs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20077K#97
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,345
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,222
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000965#24,328
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008128#12,660
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—29#39,184
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—28#67,707
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28#65,950
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202411#56,728
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

In which country does Roelofs have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 7.0 thousand people named Roelofs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roelofs.
Where is Roelofs most common?
Roelofs is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Roelofs?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,985 people named Roelofs in 2007, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.

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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, “Roelofs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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