In any group you can meet a person with an unusual, strange or very As a rule, its origin depends on the specific traditions of the country in which its owner was born. For example, Dutch surnames are considered one of the funniest in the world. Find out why in this article.

Last name: from birth and for life

The very word “surname,” so familiar to us today, comes from ancient Roman. This word denoted a large and strong family with a man at the head. Then the ancient Romans included in the concept of family, by the way, slaves who served their owners. In Russia, the rules were practically the same: before the abolition of serfdom, peasants bore the same surname as the landowner.

Nowadays, there is nowhere without a surname - it is given to us from birth and most often remains with us for life. Except in special cases, of course.

History of funny Dutch surnames

Dutch surnames are considered the funniest in all of Europe, and there is a completely reasonable historical explanation for this. When the nation was conquered by Napoleon in 1811, he issued a decree that forced everyone in the Netherlands to acquire a French surname.

The Dutch themselves, who had previously only had names, were not going to obey the law. And since they believed that the occupation of the country was only a temporary measure, they decided not to bother themselves and not rack their brains in coming up with names. And the freedom-loving people were not at all against mocking the invaders.

This is how absolutely stupid surnames appeared that were simply impossible to pronounce without laughing. For example, Naaktgeboren, which literally means “born naked.” Or Piest (“pissing”). There were also entire family branches under the surname Rotmensen - translated from Dutch, “rotten people.”

A few years later, the war with Napoleon ended, and the inhabitants of the country became independent again. However, contrary to expectations, the law was never repealed. So the heirs of these people have to bear dissonant surnames to this day. But they are rightfully considered the most original in the world.

What does "van" mean in Dutch surnames?

Recognizability of family names is given by their unique prefixes: “van”, “de”, “van der” and others. This is why Dutch surnames are so widely known abroad. For example, in the USA they are very popular.

Many Americans automatically associate Dutch surnames with prestige and high income. Mainly due to the fact that the rich industrialists came from the Netherlands. Take, for example, But his last name, despite its beautiful sound, is the most ordinary one. There was a town near Utrecht, it was called Bilt. And the surname Van-der-Bilt (Vanderbilt) means a native of this town, that is, one who comes “from Bilt.”

The Germans also have a memorable prefix von, indicating the aristocratic status of the bearer. But the Dutch version of van is much more prosaic, and there is no social status doesn't stand behind him.

The residents of the Netherlands usually write the prefix “van” with a small letter (with the exception of initials or the beginning of a sentence), but abroad it can be found written with a capital letter.

The most popular Dutch names

In general, the Netherlands is a state, although small, but very socially rich. Proximity to Belgium and Germany, a rich ethnic and religious composition, several indigenous groups - all this cannot but influence Dutch names and surnames.

If you want to know all about names in this country, it's worth visiting your local Social Security Bank. In addition to its main task - insuring the population from all kinds of disasters, this structure also deals with statistics on the names of residents.

Once every three months, bank employees post lists of the most popular names - male and female - on the official website. You can also notice a trend of decreasing or increasing popularity of each name compared to the previous period. Any name can be found full information, including its origins, etymology, correspondences in other languages, and known speakers.

It is curious that you will only find information on names in the Dutch version of the site. Although it itself is available in many languages, including English, German, French and Spanish. However, you need to understand Dutch to know the most popular Dutch first and last names.

Male names, for example, Daan, Sem, Lucas, Milan, Thomas, are found here at almost every step. And if we talk about popular women's ones, then these are Emma, ​​Julia, Sophie, Lotte, Lisa and Anna.

Origin of Dutch surnames

Today, almost any Dutch surname can be classified into one of four categories based on origin: geographical, occupational, descriptive or familial:

1. Surnames that are derived from the region in which the bearer lives or his ancestor once lived are widespread. For example, de Vries. Sometimes it’s not even just a region, but a specific estate or place where a person worked - van Aller or van de Vliert (literally “coming from a farm”)
2. Another example typical surname- by profession. For example, Haak means “peddler”, Kuiper means “cooper”, and with de Klerk everything is clear - the person worked as a clerk.
3. The third group of surnames comes from certain physical characteristics of a person or properties of his character. For example, Dik means "fat" and de Groot means "big". Not everyone is lucky with their last name, what can you say.
4. The last group of surnames is associated with the origin of its bearer and conveys family ties. Addicks means nothing more than “son of Addick”, and Evers means “son of Ever”. That is, a kind of patronymic is an analogue of what we wear in Russia.

Interesting facts about Dutch surnames

• Dutch male surnames, like ours, are given once and for life. When a girl gets married, she has a choice. She can either keep her last name or combine it with her husband’s last name, turning it into a double one. Many people prefer the first path if the groom’s surname is completely dissonant.
• There are over one hundred thousand original Dutch surnames. And many of them you will not find anywhere else.
• The surname de Jong means "young" and is often given to a younger family member with the same name. While the analogue de Oude “senior” is much less common. It’s understandable to call someone with a new name who already bears a specific surname, just because a new person has appeared in the family. new member, not accepted.
• The most popular Dutch surnames are Vries, Jansen, van de Berg, Bakker, van Dijck and Visser.

Belgium is one of the “small” Western European countries. It is located “at the crossroads” of Western Europe, “sandwiched” between Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France. The territory of 30.5 thousand km 2 accommodates more than 11.5 million! Human.

Belgians are divided into 2 language groups living separately from each other. In the northern provinces (Flanders) live the Flemings, who speak a Dutch dialect, and in the southern (Wallonia) the Walloons. They speak Walloon and French. Such heterogeneity, which became the cause of the “linguistic confrontation” between North and South, could not but affect the formation of the Belgian nomenclature.

Origin of female Belgian names

The first population to which Belgium owes its name were the Belgians. These warlike tribes, differing quite high level development, appeared on Western European territory approximately 400-300 BC. e. Like other Celtic peoples, they were pagan Druids. Worshiping plants, the Belgae gave their daughters the names of sacred trees, in which, in their opinion, the gods, or good and evil spirits. For example, Cyperissa is a “plaintive cypress”, Avalon is an “apple island”, Ingridr is a “meadow” or Enya is a “singing elf”. Therefore, many traditional Belgian female names modern times have Celtic roots.

After the invasion of the legions of Julius Caesar, who named his new province Gallia Belgica, the name book began to be replenished with onyms of Latin origin. For example, such names of Belgian women as Aurora - “dawn”, Viviyana - “living”, Juno - “life force”, Itela - “from Italy”.

After the fall of Rome, the warlike Germanic tribes of the Franks came to the Belgian lands. They also made a significant contribution to the formation of the name system. At that time, the most popular were the two-basic Belgian names for girls: Galatea, Theodora, Bernhardina, Gundula, etc.

Before the declaration of Independence (1830), Belgium had various rulers. It was “ruled” by Italians, French, Dutch, Germans, Austrians, Burgundians, etc. Of course, such a variety of ethnic cultures could not but affect the name.

All modern Belgian female names are conventionally divided into groups:

• indicating characteristic features: Adelheid - “noble appearance”, Griselda - “gray maiden”, Katarina - “pure”;
• having a religious orientation: Kristen – “follower of Christ”, Lisail – “God is my oath”;
• Related professional activity: Heinrike – “home ruler”, Theresia – “reaper”;
• identified with natural phenomena, plants, animals or precious stones: Suze – “lily”, Margaret – “pearl”, Laura – “laurel”, Ivonet – “yew tree”, etc.

Fashion trends

For several years, Emma and Marie have been in the TOP of the most popular female Belgian names. In Flanders, names such as Nora and Eliza are very common, in Wallonia - Lea and Aya. However, fashion is very fleeting, and what little Belgian girls will be called in the near future is still unknown.

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State in Western Europe. Borders with Germany and Belgium. The capital is Amsterdam. Population – 16,357,373 (2007). official languages– Dutch and Frisian (in Friesland). Two indigenous groups, the Dutch and the Frisians, also big number immigrants. Ethnic composition: 80.8% Dutch, 2.4% German, 2.4% Indonesian, 2.2% Turkish, 2.0% Surinamese, 1.9% Moroccan, 1.5% Indian, 0.8% Antilian and Aruban, and 6.0% other ethnic groups. Religion breakdown: 26.6% Catholic, 16.8% Protestant, 5.8% Muslim, 0.6% Hindu, 1.6% other religions and 42.7% atheist.

The main source for statistics on names in the Netherlands is data from the Social Insurance Bank - De Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB). This structure is the provider of insurance for the population in the country. This organization recently began to provide information on name statistics - data is available since 2007. Every quarter on its website, SVB publishes a list of the 20 most popular male and female names. Next to the name, an arrow indicates the direction of development of popularity compared to the previous period - up or down. At the beginning of the year, data for the entire past year is summarized. For each name from the list of popular names, information is provided about its origin, known media. However, sometimes, after the correct etymology, some random sound matches with words of other languages ​​are given. Also on the SVB website you can see lists of names with more than 3 names. Moreover, the lists are presented in two versions - in alphabetical order and in descending order of frequency. In addition, there are lists of the 10 most popular names in each of the 12 provinces of Holland.

Although the SVB site is available in several languages ​​(Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish and Turkish), there is only a section on names in the Dutch part of the site.

On this page I will provide data on the twenty most common names in Holland in 2014.

Boy names

Place	Name	Number of names
1	Daan	751
2	Bram	727
3	Milan	700
4	Finn	694
5	Sem	693
6	Lucas	681
7	Luuk	667
8	Levi	646
9	Liam	614
10	Noah	602
11	Jayden	550
12	Tim	546
13	Thomas	545
14	Jesse	538
15	Thijs	536
16	Max	518
17	Julian	515
18	Ruben	513
19	Lars	508
20	Mees	492

Girls names

Place	Name	Number of names
1	Sophie	836
2	Emma	728
3	Julia	676
4	Mila	609
5	Tess	591
6	Isa	583
7	Zoë	576
8	Anna	575
9–10	Eva	570
9–10	Sara	570
11	Fenna	556
12	Evi	538
13	Lotte	534
14	Lynn	523
15	Lisa	520
16	Fleur	503
17	Saar	496
18	Sarah	836
19	Lieke	728
20	Noa	676

Holland/Netherlands, 2009–2011

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State in Western Europe. Borders with Germany and Belgium. The capital is Amsterdam. Population – 16,357,373 (2007). The official languages ​​are Dutch and Frisian (in Friesland). The two indigenous population groups are the Dutch and the Frisians, and there is also a large number of immigrants. Ethnic composition: 80.8% Dutch, 2.4% German, 2.4% Indonesian, 2.2% Turkish, 2.0% Surinamese, 1.9% Moroccan, 1.5% Indian, 0.8% Antilian and Aruban, and 6.0% other ethnic groups. Religion breakdown: 26.6% Catholic, 16.8% Protestant, 5.8% Muslim, 0.6% Hindu, 1.6% other religions and 42.7% atheist.

The main source for statistics on names in the Netherlands is data from the Social Insurance Bank - De Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB). This structure is the provider of insurance for the population in the country. This organization recently began to provide information on name statistics - data is available since 2007. Every quarter on its website, SVB publishes a list of the 20 most popular male and female names. Next to the name, an arrow indicates the direction of development of popularity compared to the previous period - up or down. At the beginning of the year, data for the entire past year is summarized. For each name from the list of popular names, information is provided about the origin of the name and known bearers. However, sometimes, after the correct etymology, some random sound matches with words of other languages ​​are given. For 2009–2011 SVB website has pdf files with full list names of the year and the number of names. Moreover, the lists exist in two versions - in alphabetical order and in descending order of frequency.

Although the SVB site is available in several languages ​​(Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish and Turkish), there is only a section on names in the Dutch part of the site.

On my website I will provide data on the twenty most common names in Holland for the last three years.

Boy names

Girls names

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Belgian male names

Belgium- a state in Northwestern Europe. Population – 10.8 million people. The capital is Brussels. It borders the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France.

The name of the state comes from the name of the Celtic tribe - belgi, inhabited this territory at the beginning of our era.

Belgium is divided into three regions:

Flemish region

Walloon region

Brussels-Capital Region.

Belgium has three linguistic communities– Flemish, French, German-speaking.

Accordingly, the names are mainly of Tsemets and French origin.

Belgian male names:

Aaron – Aaron

Adam – Adam

Adrien - Adrien

Alessio – Alessio

Alexander – Alexander

Alexandre – Alexander

Alexis – Alexis

Amber – Amber

Antoine – Anthony

Arne - Arnie

Arthur – Arthur

Axel – Axel

Baptiste - Baptist

Benjamin - Benjamin

Clement – ​​Clement

Daan - Dan

David - David

Dylan – Dylan

Elias - Elias

Emile – Emil

Enzo – Enzo

Ethan - Ethan

Ferre - Ferri

Florian - Florian

Gabriel – Garbiel

Gilles - Gilles

Guillaume

Hugo - Hugo

Jarne

Jasper - Jasper

Jelle – Gilles

Jonas - Jonas

Julien - Julien

Kobe - Kob

Lander - Lander

Lars - Lars

Liam – Lim

Louis – Louis

Lowie - Lowie

Luka - Luka

Lukas – Lucas

Martin – Martin

Matheo – Mateo

Mathias - Mathias

Mathieu – Matthew

Mathis - Mathis

Mats - Mats

Matteo – Matteo

Matthias - Matthias

Mauro – Mauro

Maxim – Maxim

Maxime – Maxime

Milan – Milan

Nathan - Nathan

Nicolas - Nicholas

Niels - Niels

Noa – Noah

Nolan - Nolan

Oscar - Oscar

Olivier – Olivier

Quinten – Künten

Raphael - Raphael

Rayan - Ryan

Robbe – Robbie

Robin – Robin

Romain – Roman

Ruben - Ruben

Rune - Rune

Sam - Sam

Samuel - Samuel

Sander - Sander

Senne - Senne

Seppe - Sepp

Siebe - Sibel

Simon – Simon

Stan - Stan

Theo– Theo

Thomas - Thomas

Tibo - Tibo

Tom - Tom

Tristan - Tristan

Tuur – Tour

Victor – Victor

Warre - Verry

William - William

Wout

Xander – Xander

Yanis - Yanis

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