Anouk
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French: said to be a pet form of pAnne
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anuk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anouk is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 74th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 794(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 5.5K
- FRFrance≈1 in 13K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- 1 in 794 (inferred from the name graph)
21,766 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
French: said to be a pet form of pAnne. It is famous as the adopted name of the French film actress Anouk Aimée.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anouk 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #121 | 21,766 | 1 in 794 | 22K | Anouk | 129 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 11K | Anouk | 253 |
| BE Belgium | #720 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 18 | Anouk | 90 |
| CH Switzerland | #785 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 68 | Anouk | 56 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 135K | 6 | Anouk | 93 |
| LU Luxembourg | #74 | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Anouk | 10 |
21,766 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the de-munich-vornamen register; FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anouk Ferjacb. 1932FRFrench actress
- Anouk Grinbergb. 1963FRFrench actress
- Emmanuelle Bachb. 1968FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Anouk Ricardb. 1970FRFrench illustrator and comics artist
- Anoukb. 1975NLDutch singer
- Carice van Houtenb. 1976NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress and singer (born 1976)
- Anouk Hoogendijkb. 1985NLDutch association football player
- Anouk Dekkerb. 1986NLDutch association football player
- Anouk Vergé-Dépréb. 1992CHSwiss volleyball player
- Anouk Vetterb. 1993NLDutch athletics competitor
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 53 sources across 30 countries.
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
- Where does the name Anouk come from?
- French: said to be a pet form of pAnne. It is famous as the adopted name of the French film actress Anouk Aimée. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Anouk?
- A machine transcription gives /anuk/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Anouk a male or female name?
- Anouk 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 does the name Anouk mean?
- Recorded meaning: French: said to be a pet form of pAnne.
- What are other forms of the name Anouk?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Anouk have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Anouk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anouk.
- Where is Anouk most common?
- Anouk is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 794 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Anouk?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21,766 people named Anouk, about 1 in 794 residents.
- How common is Anouk compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Anouk is the 121st most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anoukThe 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, “Anouk” — the 121st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.