Snoek

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Dutch: pike (any fish of the genus Esox)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/snuk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 186K
  • NONorway1 in 342K

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)

3,656 people, 2007

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Snoek is read(measured from records)

Snoek is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Dutch42%

    pike (any fish of the genus Esox)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English25%

    An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Khmer13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Snoek in Khmer.

  • German6.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Snoek in German.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Snoek 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 Snoek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#3163,6561 in 4.7K3.7KSnoek90
ZA South Africa—≈300 est.≈1 in 186K—Snoek12
US United States—1051 in 3.2M105Snoek83
DE Germany—≈95 est.≈1 in 841K—Snoek41
CA Canada—≈37 est.≈1 in 1M—Snoek33
AU Australia—≈34 est.≈1 in 751K—Snoek25
BE Belgium—231 in 510K23Snoek6
NO Norway—161 in 342K16—1

3,656 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Snoèk

34 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Snoek 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, snoek, mackerel, Thyrsites atun

    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)

1700180019002000Helena Snoek, b. 1764Johann Benjamin Snoek, b. 1816Jakob Louis Snoek, b. 1902Hans Snoek, b. 1910Aart Snoek, b. 1916Paul Snoek, b. 1933Jannike Snoek, b. 1945Jan A. M. Snoek, b. 1946Hendrik Snoek, b. 1948Otto Snoek, b. 1966

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)

FormalGeachte heer/mevrouw Snoek,Dear Snoek, (English)
InformalGeachte heer/mevrouw Snoek,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Snoek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20073.7K#270
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020105#152,989
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010105#154,907
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200823#43,984
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—16#46,424
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

Where does the name Snoek come from?
An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Snoek?
A machine transcription gives /snuk/ (IPA) for Dutch.
What does the name Snoek mean?
In Dutch, pike (any fish of the genus Esox)
In which country does Snoek have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Snoek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled snoek.
Where is Snoek most common?
Snoek is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Snoek?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,656 people named Snoek in 2007, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
How common is Snoek compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Snoek is the 316th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Snoek” — the 316th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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