Nijenhuis is a Dutch toponymic surname. It is a form of Nieuwenhuis ("new house") found most commonly in the provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 90.9% of all known bearers of the surname Nijenhuis were residents of the Netherlands (frequency 1:3,093), 3.4% of Australia (1:116,539), 1.2% of Brazil (1:2,763,678), 1.1% of Germany (1:1,234,287) and 1.0% of Canada (1:623,695). In the Netherlands, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:3,093) in the following provinces: 1. Overijssel (1:793) 2. Gelderland (1:1,203) 3. Drenthe (1:2,270) 4. Friesland (1:2,623) 5. Flevoland (1:2,719) 6. Groningen (1:2,857) People Albert Nijenhuis (1926–2015), Dutch and American mathematician. Named after him: The mathematical operators Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket, Nijenhuis–Richardson bracket, and Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket (born 1972), Dutch historian (1798–1868), Dutch diplomat, Minister of Foreign affairs in 1848 Beorn Nijenhuis (born 1984), Canadian-born Dutch speed skater Emmie te Nijenhuis (born 1931), Dutch ethnomusicologist Jan te Nijenhuis (born 1964), Dutch psychologist and psychometrician Johan Nijenhuis (born 1968), Dutch film director and producer Wiebe Nijenhuis (1955–2016), Dutch weightlifter See also Nienhuis, Nijhuis, different forms of the same surname References Dutch-language surnames Toponymic surnames