Corpus of Family Names in the Netherlands

The Corpus of Family Names in the Netherlands presents the 314.000 family names of all persons with the Dutch nationality, who lived in the Netherlands in the year 2007. Also included are about 100.000 family names registered at the census from 1947. Besides frequencies and geographic distribution maps, additional information about the meaning, composition and history can be found for many names. The names are hierarchically interconnected on the basis of spelling, meaning and frequency. The information is available in Dutch only.

Leendert Brouwer, editor
Maarten van der Peet et al., programming
Gerrit Bloothooft (Universiteit Utrecht),GBA co-ordination
Jan Pieter Kunst, application components

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