Riëtte

given name · Latin script

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Riëtte is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 54Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 61K
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Record sources
60 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Riette in ZA South Africa, US United States, NL Netherlands and 2 more.

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)

Riëtte 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 Riëtte is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈1,200 est.≈1 in 54K—Riette33
NL Netherlands2811 in 61K281Riette22
GH Ghana≈180 est.≈1 in 187K—Riette2
US United States≈52 est.≈1 in 6.5MlistedRiette60
AU Australia≈29 est.≈1 in 930K—Riette28
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Riëtte is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, South Africa, Netherlands, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Riette, Riétte, Rie͏̈tte

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Netherlands, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Riette

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Riette

  • Polish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Riette

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Riette, Riétte

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Riette

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Riette

9 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Riëtte a male or female name?
Riëtte is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
Which countries have the most people named Riëtte?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Riëtte in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riette. After it come Netherlands, Ghana, United States and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Riëtte?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 281 people named Riëtte, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.

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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, “Riëtte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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