Names of the living in the Netherlands

14,876,618 people, as the register stood on 1 January 2018. The 1,500 most common of their names are here, which is not all of them – see the note at the foot of the page. This counts people on a register on one date, not births in a year.

The name people go by

Held as the first forename.

Women

#	Name	People
1	Maria	316,197
2	Johanna	250,740
3	Anna	130,424
4	Cornelia	105,905
5	Elisabeth	105,377
6	Wilhelmina	92,547
7	Catharina	81,284
8	Hendrika	67,395
9	Adriana	65,875
10	Petronella	65,264
11	Margaretha	43,799
12	Yvonne	42,075
13	Jacoba	40,396
14	Monique	39,351
15	Helena	38,373
16	Geertruida	36,857
17	Esther	33,429
18	Ingrid	31,177
19	Anne	30,341
20	Antonia	29,941

Men

#	Name	People
1	Johannes	291,406
2	Jan	177,095
3	Cornelis	127,757
4	Hendrik	112,421
5	Willem	97,388
6	Petrus	82,114
7	Pieter	79,142
8	Gerrit	71,457
9	Wilhelmus	66,257
10	Peter	65,230
11	Robert	63,529
12	Jacobus	61,061
13	Antonius	60,820
14	Gerardus	60,475
15	Adrianus	59,356
16	Franciscus	56,581
17	Hendrikus	51,376
18	Jeroen	48,935
19	Johan	47,366
20	Jacob	47,081

Held anywhere among the forenames

People here carry 1.98 forenames each on average, and the most common names are not the same list once the later ones are counted too.

Women

#	Name	People
1	Maria	1,401,382
2	Johanna	724,630
3	Cornelia	295,074
4	Elisabeth	293,952
5	Wilhelmina	290,018
6	Anna	263,315
7	Catharina	231,454
8	Petronella	208,163
9	Adriana	191,004
10	Hendrika	179,340
11	Jacoba	124,753
12	Antonia	118,160
13	Helena	115,254
14	Margaretha	110,712
15	Christina	99,129
16	Theodora	96,312
17	Geertruida	92,229
18	Gerarda	86,588
19	Francisca	80,261
20	Elizabeth	67,576

Men

#	Name	People
1	Johannes	813,633
2	Maria	468,188
3	Jan	376,312
4	Cornelis	352,739
5	Petrus	235,306
6	Gerardus	228,665
7	Antonius	226,625
8	Willem	224,699
9	Wilhelmus	219,073
10	Hendrik	212,450
11	Jacobus	182,290
12	Adrianus	176,609
13	Franciscus	167,807
14	Pieter	162,390
15	Hendrikus	148,649
16	Theodorus	130,615
17	Marinus	119,229
18	Peter	116,440
19	Henricus	115,070
20	Martinus	112,919

Names almost nobody goes by

Common names that are nearly always somebody's second or third forename rather than the one they are called.

Name	Carry it	Go by it	Share
Maria	468,188	606	0.1%
Marie	47,443	296	0.6%
Jozef	67,289	13,031	19.4%
Cornelius	20,033	4,581	22.9%
Hubertus	80,591	19,418	24.1%
Joseph	67,721	16,531	24.4%
Josephus	68,109	16,863	24.8%
Gerardus	228,665	60,475	26.4%
Antonius	226,625	60,820	26.8%
Louis	23,783	6,919	29.1%
Hubertina	39,390	6,669	16.9%
Theresia	64,502	11,682	18.1%
Gerarda	86,588	16,126	18.6%
Josepha	21,488	4,046	18.8%
Francisca	80,261	16,225	20.2%
Josephina	67,046	14,192	21.2%
Maria	1,401,382	316,197	22.6%
Henrica	59,894	14,528	24.3%
Louisa	25,613	6,262	24.4%
Antoinette	30,179	7,399	24.5%

Source: Meertens Instituut, Nederlandse Voornamenbank. People on the Dutch population register on 1 January 2018, counted under the forenames they hold. It is not a count of births, and the Netherlands has no country page here for that reason. It is also not quite everybody: the register held about 17.2 million people that day and these figures reach 14.9 million, the Meertens Instituut having set its popularity figures on people of Dutch nationality born in the Netherlands. A name held by fewer than five people is withheld. This site reads the 1,500 most common names rather than all 443,801, because the source publishes no file and serves them ten to a page.