Roskam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: currycomb
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹɑskəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roskam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 759K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 9.3K
- BEBelgium1 in 54K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
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(measured from records)
currycomb
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roskam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Roskam | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,859 | 1 in 9.3K | 1.9K | Roskam | 44 |
| US United States | — | 438 | 1 in 759K | 438 | Roskam | 152 |
| BE Belgium | — | 218 | 1 in 54K | 218 | Roskam | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 445K | — | Roskam | 35 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Roskam | 16 |
| BS Bahamas | #826 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Roskam | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Roskam is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dsb, dative plural of roska
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Evert Roskamb. 1892NLDutch criminal (1892-1974)
- Janna Roskamb. 1901NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Jacobus Roskamb. 1929NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Jan Roskamb. 1930NLAmerican aircraft designer
- Karel Roskamb. 1931NLDutch radio presenter
- Peter Roskamb. 1961USAmerican politician (born 1961)
- Hendrika Nicoline Roskamb. 1970NLDutch theologian (1970-)
- Michaël R. Roskamb. 1972BEBelgian film director
- Isabelle Roskamb. 1973BEresearcher
- Mateo Roskamb. 1987HRCroatian footballer
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.9K | #709 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 438 | #48,256 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 403 | #55,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 403 | #49,057 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 218 | #7,768 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 193 | #9,360 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Roskam mean, and where does it come from?
- currycomb Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Roskam?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɑskəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Roskam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Roskam in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roskam.
- Where is Roskam most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roskam is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 9.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Roskam?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,859 people named Roskam in 2007, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Roskam compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Roskam is the 826th most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Roskam?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roskamThe 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, “Roskam” — the 826th most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.