Stelma
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stelma is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 872K◐
- JMJamaica1 in 47K
- NLNetherlands1 in 101K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,042 | 76% |
| NL Netherlands | 287 | 7% |
| JM Jamaica | 97 | 2% |
| GB United Kingdom | 68 | 2% |
| CA Canada | 51 | 1% |
≈3,545 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English3.4K84%
- Western Frisian1784%
- Dutch1464%
- Spanish682%
- Croatian481%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,378 | 84% |
| Western Frisian | 178 | 4% |
| Dutch | 146 | 4% |
| Spanish | 68 | 2% |
| Croatian | 48 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Jacoba Stelmab. 1907NLgymnast (1907–1987)
- Ype Stelmab. 1936NLDutch rower
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 343 | #62,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 329 | #61,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 300 | #62,396 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 178 | #11,645 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 29 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #96,655 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #121,910 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-03 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Stelma?
- Our records include 3,545 bearers of Stelma across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Stelma have the most bearers?
- Stelma is most frequently recorded in the United States.
Query this name via API
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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, “Stelma”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.