Slagter
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈsɫæɡtɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Slagter is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch Slagter.
- NLNetherlands
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Dutch Slagter.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Slagter 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 Afrikaans, butcher
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)- Wiek Slagterb. 1923NLDutch lawyer and Professor
- Jan Slagterb. 1954NLDutch television presenter
- Jacob Slagterb. 1958NLDutch conductor
- Jan Maarten Slagterb. 1969NLDutch journalist
- Arvin Slagterb. 1985NLDutch basketball player (born 1985)
- Tom-Jelte Slagterb. 1989NLroad bicycle racer
- Aruni Slagterb. 1989NLDutch association football player
- OnneDib. 1990NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress and blogger
- Gian Slagterb. 1991NLDutch basketball player (born 1991)
- Carolina Slagterb. 1994NLDutch waterpolo player
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.6K | #424 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 577 | #38,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 565 | #41,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 552 | #37,835 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 13 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #86,902 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #396,098 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Slagter mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch Slagter. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Slagter?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɫæɡtɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Slagter have the most bearers?
- Slagter is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Slagter?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/slagterThe 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, “Slagter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.