Wesselink
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈʋɛ.sə.lɪŋk/(recorded in a dictionary) Dutch · from Wiktionary
Wesselink is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 7.9K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
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)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,189 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wesselink 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #680 | 2,189 | 1 in 7.9K | 2.2K | Wesselink | 75 |
| US United States | — | 207 | 1 in 1.6M | 217 | Wesselink | 104 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 626K | — | Wesselink | 41 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 946K | — | Wesselink | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 864K | — | Wesselink | 27 |
| DK Denmark | — | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
2,189 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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Adriaan Wesselinkb. 1909NLDutch astronomer
- Wim Wesselinkb. 1924NLDutch politician (1924-2017)
- Gerard Wesselinkb. 1953NLDutch volleyball player (1953–2020)
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.2K | #550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 217 | #81,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 212 | #92,936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 207 | #89,403 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #36,541 |
| US United States | wru 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
- How do you pronounce Wesselink?
- In Dutch /ˈʋɛ.sə.lɪŋk/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Wesselink have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Wesselink, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wesselink.
- Where is Wesselink most common?
- Wesselink is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wesselink?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,189 people named Wesselink in 2007, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Wesselink compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Wesselink is the 680th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wesselink?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wesselinkThe 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, “Wesselink” — the 680th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.