Names of Suriname SR
Names in Suriname are recorded in Dutch and srn, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.
Written in Dutch, srn.
- Population
- 610K
- Official registers
- 2
- Name forms recorded
- 77
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in Suriname
2 naming traditions are in use in Suriname, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Suriname
Scripts & spelling
Names in Suriname are written in Latin (99%) and Hebrew (1%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Official registers
- This page showcases a list of popular Surinamese baby names and their meanings, published by WIJ.nl.2025not a population count
wij.nl. Counts: not recorded. given. 19 forms. 2025. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page showcases a list of popular Surinamese baby names and their meanings, published by WIJ.nl. NOT FOUND (2026-08-06): checked ABS Suriname (statistics-suriname.org — REDATAM census/survey tool, no per-name lookup) and searched for the Centraal Bureau voor Burgerzaken (CBB) civil registry site — no live per-name search/count tool found. No live oracle found.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
- The article presented by Cambridge University Press discusses the socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames with emp2024not a population count
www.cambridge.org. Counts: not recorded. surname. 4 forms. 2024. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The article presented by Cambridge University Press discusses the socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames with emphasis on their use in health research.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.
Questions
- Is there one naming system in Suriname?
- No — 2 are described on this page (Dutch, Afro-Caribbean), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Suriname”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/SR (data snapshot 2026-09-12).