Nienhuis is a Dutch toponymic surname. It is a form of Nieuwenhuis ("new house") found most commonly in the provinces of Groningen and Drenthe.Nienhuis at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands
Geographical distribution In 2014, 57.6% of all known bearers of the surname were residents of the Netherlands (frequency 1:9,281), 33.4% of the United States (1:342,418) and 5.4% of Canada (1:213,942).
In the Netherlands, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:9,281) in the following provinces:Nienhuis surname distribution Groningen (1:1,206) Drenthe (1:2,015) Friesland (1:6,666) Flevoland (1:7,688) Overijssel (1:8,224) Utrecht (1:8,945)
People Arthur W. Nienhuis (1941–2021), American physician Bert Nienhuis (1873–1960), Dutch ceramist Doug Nienhuis (born 1982), American football offensive lineman Han-Wen Nienhuys (born 1975), Dutch programmer, co-creator of Lilypond Hendrik Nienhuis (1790–1862), Dutch legal scholar Henk Nienhuis (1941–2017), Dutch football midfielder and manager Kraig Nienhuis (born 1961), Canadian professional ice hockey player Leonard Nienhuis (born 1990), Dutch football goalkeeper Nienhuijs / Nienhuys Jacob Nienhuys (1836–1927), Dutch tobacco plantation owner and founder of Deli Company Jan Willem Nienhuys (born 1942), Dutch mathematician, book translator, and skeptic
See also Nieuwenhuis, Nijenhuis, different forms of the same surname
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