Kortjé

Name: Kortjé: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Kortjé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common

ZASouth Africa≈1 in 76K(inferred from the name graph)
DEGermany≈1 in 854K
SVEl Salvador≈1 in 963K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kortjé itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 55 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kortje in US United States, ZA South Africa, GB United Kingdom and 2 more, Körtje in DE Germany and Koertje in HK Hong Kong.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

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(measured from records)

Kortjé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kortjé is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
ZA South Africa	≈740 est.	≈1 in 76K	—	Kortje	15
DE Germany	≈94 est.	≈1 in 854K	—	Körtje	19
US United States	≈72 est.	≈1 in 4.6M	listed	Kortje	55
GB United Kingdom	≈47 est.	≈1 in 1.4M	—	Kortje	6
CA Canada	≈29 est.	≈1 in 1.3M	—	Kortje	28
HK Hong Kong	≈25 est.	≈1 in 286K	—	Koertje	1
SV El Salvador	≈7 est.	≈1 in 963K	—	Kortje	1
CH Switzerland	4as Koertje	1 in 2.1M	4	—	2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kortjé is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Swahili surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in South Africa
Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho
Also written Kortje
French surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in South Africa
Also written Kortje

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kortjé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kortjé have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 741 people named Kortjé in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kortje.
How common is the name Kortjé?: In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Koertje in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

What do you want to know about Kortjé?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kortj%C3%A9

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Kortjé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)