Vrieze

surname · Latin script

Meaning: singular present subjunctive of vriezen

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 30K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 909K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K

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)

567 people, 2007

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

singular present subjunctive of vriezen

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vrieze 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 Vrieze is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands5671 in 30K567Vrieze8
US United States3661 in 909K382Vrieze10
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9—1
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3Vrieze11
FR France≈2 est.≈1 in 31M—Vrieze80

567 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

16001700180019002000Levina de Vrieze, b. 1630Jopie Vrieze, b. 1914Stiene de Vrieze, b. 1915Kees Vrieze, b. 1937John Vrieze, b. 1950

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Vrieze
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007567#3,364
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020382#57,536
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010366#55,962
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000326#58,257
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20249#65,843
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20083#120,791
US United Stateswru 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 Vrieze mean, and where does it come from?
singular present subjunctive of vriezen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Vrieze have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 567 people named Vrieze, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vrieze.
Where is Vrieze most common?
Vrieze is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vrieze?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 567 people named Vrieze in 2007, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.

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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, “Vrieze”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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