Anneke

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anneke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Dutch, recorded as a diminutive of the female given name Anne.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 9.9K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 16K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

11,453 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
188 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AnnekeLatin(measured from records)
ΆννεκεGreek(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

a diminutive of the female given name Anne

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

How Anneke is read(measured from records)

Anneke is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Dutch42%

    a diminutive of the female given name Anne

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English27%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Anneke in English.

  • German14%

    weibl. Vom., niederdeutsche Kose­ form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

    metronymic from Anna

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anneke 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 Anneke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#11811,4531 in 1.5K11KAnneke112
ZA South Africa—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 16K—Anneke52
DE Germany—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 42K1Anneke115
BE Belgium—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 9.9K—Anneke64
US United States—1,1631 in 286K1.2KAnneke188
AU Australia—≈440 est.≈1 in 58K1Anneke89

11,453 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

Anneke is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Änneke

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Annéke, Anneké

  • English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Anneké

  • Croatian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Anneké

40 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)

19201940196019802000Anneke Levelt Sengers, b. 1929Anneke Wills, b. 1941Anneke Brassinga, b. 1948Anneke Blok, b. 1959Anneke von der Lippe, b. 1964Anneke Putri, b. 1966Anneke Kim Sarnau, b. 1972Anneke van Giersbergen, b. 1973Anneke Schwabe, b. 1978Anneke Necro, b. 1987

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)

Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Anneke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—11K#202
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—8.3K#467
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#11,167
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—31#8,955
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20235—
AU AustraliaAU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD)20171—
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)20171—
DE GermanyStadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene20201—
DE GermanyStadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene20101—
DE GermanyStadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen2022——
NL NetherlandsBabynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020)———
DE GermanyDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 does the name Anneke mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the female given name Anne Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Anneke a male or female name?
Anneke 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.
What are other forms of the name Anneke?
In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Anneke have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Anneke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anneke.
Where is Anneke most common?
Anneke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Anneke?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 11,453 people named Anneke, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Anneke compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Anneke is the 118th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Anneke?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anneke

The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Anneke” — the 118th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Anneke parses inside a full name →