Westra
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɛstɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Westra is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- USUnited States
- CACanada
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.
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)
- Trijntje Pieters Westrab. 1783NLDutch ice skater (1783-1861)
- Harmen Westrab. 1883NLDutch jurist, university professor and politician (1883-1959)
- Pieter Westrab. 1886NLDutch journalist and politician (1886-1947)
- Laura Westrab. 1933professor (1933- )
- Ans Westrab. 1936NZNew Zealand photographer (1936–2023)
- Richard Westrab. 1954CADesignated Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Canada; Ph.D. from Queen's University, Canada in 2001
- Berry Westrab. 1961NLDutch bridge player
- Arjen Westrab. 1970NLDutch writer
- Lieuwe Westrab. 1982NLracing cyclist (1982–2023)
- Yvonne WestraNew Zealand photographer
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Westra?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɛstɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Westra have the most bearers?
- Westra is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Westra?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/westraThe 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, “Westra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.