Stuurman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: helmsman
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stuɝmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stuurman is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.
- ZASouth Africa
- NLNetherlands
- 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)
helmsman
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rein Stuurmanb. 1900NLDutch artist (1900-1984)
- Siep Stuurmanb. 1946NLDutch historian
- Frans Stuurmanb. 1952NLDutch painter (born 1952)
- Hannie Stuurmanb. 1963NLDutch politician
- Eric Stuurmanb. 1965NLDutch wheelchair tennis player
- Pieter Stuurmanb. 1981ZASouth African cricketer
- Trevor Stuurmanb. 1992ZASouth African Photographer
- Jim Stuurmanb. 1996NLDutch actor
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.1K | #1,498 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #60,264 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #12 |
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 Stuurman mean, and where does it come from?
- helmsman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stuurman?
- A machine transcription gives /stuɝmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stuurman have the most bearers?
- Stuurman is most frequently recorded in South Africa.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stuurmanThe 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, “Stuurman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.