Antje
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Antje is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch.
- NLNetherlands1 in 761(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.1K
- USUnited States1 in 481K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- 1 in 761 (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Antje 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #227 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1 | Antje | 216 |
| NL Netherlands | #881 | 22,694 | 1 in 761 | 23K | Antje | 57 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Antje | 45 |
| US United States | — | 692 | 1 in 481K | 692 | Antje | 202 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 21 | Antje | 43 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 6 | Antje | 34 |
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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Antje is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Antja: weibl. Vom., friesische und niederländische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Low German and Dutch: pet form of ANNE .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antje Weisgerberb. 1922DEGerman actress (1922–2004)
- Antje Hagenb. 1938DEGerman actress
- Antje Vollmerb. 1943DEGerman politician (1943–2023)
- Antje Jackelénb. 1955SESwedish theologist, Church of Sweden archbishop between June 2014 and October 2022
- Antje Weithaasb. 1966DEGerman violinist
- Antje Boetiusb. 1967DEGerman marine biologist and university teacher (born 1967)
- Antje Westermannb. 1971DEGerman actress
- Antje Buschschulteb. 1978DEGerman swimmer
- Antje Traueb. 1981DEGerman actress
- Antje Möldner-Schmidtb. 1984DEGerman middle distance runner
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 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 23K | #87 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 17K | #216 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 692 | #16,344 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 29 | #337 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 23 | #410 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2014 | 21 | #1,693 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 19 | #463 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 18 | #12,499 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1996 | 17 | #502 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2003 | 15 | #570 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2006 | 6 | #1,218 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Antje mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Antje a male or female name?
- Antje 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.
- How common is the name Antje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 22,694 people named Antje, about 1 in 761 residents.
- How common is Antje compared with other names?
- In Germany, Antje is the 227th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Antje?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Antje have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Antje in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled antje.
- Where is Antje most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Antje is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 761 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Antje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/antjeThe 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, “Antje” — the 227th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.