Sjors
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɔrs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sjors is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 502K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 705K
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
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,878 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sjörs in SE Sweden.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sjors 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 | #550 | 3,878 | 1 in 4.5K | 3.6K | Sjors | 88 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Sjors | 25 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Sjors | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Sjors | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 1 | Sjors | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | Sjörs | 12 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sjors | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 1 |
3,878 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sjors Fröhlichb. 1967NLDutch mayor and former radio host
- Sjors van Iwaardenb. 1969NLDutch rower
- Sjors Scheresb. 1975NLDutch scientist
- Sjors Verdellenb. 1981NLDutch football player
- Sjors Besselingb. 1985NLDutch basketball player (born 1985)
- Sjors Paridaansb. 1986NLDutch footballer
- Sjors Ulteeb. 1987NLDutch association football manager
- Sjors Handgraafb. 1991NLDutch cyclist
- Sjors Kramerb. 2000NLDutch footballer (born 2000)
- Sjors MansNLDutch film producer, composer and screenwriter
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 3.6K | #471 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 3.3K | #962 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 291 | #2,854 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 250 | #4,841 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 35 | #441 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2016 | 32 | #461 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #41,804 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1980 | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Sjors?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɔrs/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Sjors a male or female name?
- Sjors 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.
- What are other forms of the name Sjors?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Jürgen are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Joris.
- In which country does Sjors have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Sjors, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sjors.
- Where is Sjors most common?
- Sjors is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sjors?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,878 people named Sjors, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Sjors compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Sjors is the 550th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sjors?
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/sjorsThe 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, “Sjors” — the 550th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.