Greetje
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xretjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Greetje is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- BEBelgium
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Greetje Kraanb. 1901NLswimmer
- Greetje Donkerb. 1906NLDutch dancer (1906-1993)
- Greetje Kauffeldb. 1939NLDutch singer
- Greetje den Ouden-Dekkersb. 1940NLDutch politician
- Greetje de Vries-Leggedoorb. 1955NLDutch politician
- Greetje Bijmab. 1956NLDutch singer
- Greetje van den Bergb. 1959NLDutch writer
- Greetje Bijleveldb. 1963NLphotographer (born 1963)
- Greetje Van BuggenhoutBEBelgian photographer
- Greetje SchellerDEGerman association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.4K | #731 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.5K | #1,655 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Greetje?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Margaretha and Margriet.
- How do you pronounce Greetje?
- A machine transcription gives /xretjə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Greetje a male or female name?
- Greetje is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Greetje have the most bearers?
- Greetje is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Greetje?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/greetjeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Greetje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.