Vrij
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vrij is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
- NLNetherlands
- BEBelgium
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vrij is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, free
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Dutch, free; not imprisoned or enslaved.
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)
- Cornelis Vrijb. 1864NLDutch teacher (1864–1916)
- Joris Vrijb. 1950NLDutch rower
- James Vrijb. 1951NLDutch boxer
- Aldert Vrijb. 1960NLDutch psychologist
- Dick Vrijb. 1965NLDutch mixed martial arts fighter
- Nikki Vrijb. 2004NLDutch association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 717 | #2,524 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 334 | #12,395 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 53 | #8,573 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #28,153 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #108,208 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #37,856 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #129,947 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- Is Vrij a male or female name?
- Vrij 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.
- In which country does Vrij have the most bearers?
- Vrij is most frequently recorded in India.
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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, “Vrij”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.