Wouter
given name · Dutch · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wouter is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Dutch and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, akin to Walter.
- NLNetherlands1 in 465◐
- BEBelgium1 in 2.7K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈38K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 159 ●
- 1 in 465 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
25K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, akin to Walter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #122 | 37,180△ | 16K rec. | 1 in 465 | 37K | Wouter | 159 |
| BE Belgium | #313 | 5,806 | 4.8K rec. | — | 2 | Wouter | 125 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 1,431 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Wouter | 53 |
| FR France | — | 811 | 592 rec. | — | listed | Wouter | 109 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 361 | 200 rec. | — | — | Wouter | 54 |
| US United States | — | 234 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 234 | Wouter | 148 |
| NO Norway | — | 119 | 44 rec. | — | 110 | Wouter | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 102△ | 34 rec. | 1 in 100K | 102 | Wouter | 14 |
| FI Finland | — | 95 | 0 rec. | — | 85 | Wouter | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 89 | 22 rec. | — | — | Wouter | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 84 | 63 rec. | — | — | Wouter | 32 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 79 | 42 rec. | — | — | Wouter | 17 |
Roughly 37K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 465). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Dutch67K35%
- Western Frisian64K33%
- English46K24%
- German2.4K1%
- French1.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | 67,420 | 35% |
| Western Frisian | 64,079 | 33% |
| English | 45,611 | 24% |
| German | 2,395 | 1% |
| French | 1,702 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Wouter is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Dutch form of WALTER .
as a word
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 27 |
| 2010 | 28 |
| 2011 | 34 |
| 2012 | 34 |
| 2013 | 37 |
| 2014 | 40 |
| 2015 | 41 |
| 2016 | 45 |
| 2017 | 45 |
| 2018 | 47 |
| 2019 | 47 |
| 2020 | 47 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 16 years between 2005–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Walter, Count of Rethelb. 1201FRnot in their usual nameFrench nobleman
- Wouter Crabeth IIb. 1594NLDutch painter (1594-1644)
- Remco Campertb. 1929NLnot in their usual nameDutch writer (1929–2022)
- Wouter Kellermanb. 1961ZASouth African musician
- Wouter Barendrechtb. 1965NLDutch film producer (1965-2009)
- Wouter Hamelb. 1977NLDutch singer
- Gotyeb. 1980BEnot in their usual nameBelgian-Australian musician (born 1980)
- Wouter Janssenb. 1982NLDutch DJ, member of Showtek
- Wouter Weylandtb. 1984BEBelgian road bicycle racer (1984-2011)
- Wouter Burgerb. 2001NLassociation 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●
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 58 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Wouter?
- We estimate roughly 38 thousand people bear Wouter (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Wouter have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 37 thousand people bear Wouter in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled wouter.
- Where is Wouter most common?
- Wouter is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 465 people carrying it.
- How common is Wouter compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Wouter is the 122nd most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Wouter a male or female name?
- Wouter 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.
- What does the name Wouter mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, akin to Walter
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Wouter” — the 122nd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.