Femke

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Pace / Ragazzina

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

/fɛmkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Femke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 835(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 4.3K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 149K

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)

20,683 people

Sources
115 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 835 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Pace / Ragazzina

Sources 1

  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Femke 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 Femke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#16320,6831 in 83521KFemke115
BE Belgium#565≈2,700 est.≈1 in 4.3K5Femke80
DE Germany—≈540 est.≈1 in 149K1Femke60
FR France—≈110 est.≈1 in 611K—Femke75
US United States—≈100 est.≈1 in 3.2M5Femke71
SE Sweden—611 in 167K61Femke8
DK Denmark—371 in 159K37Femke13

20,683 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); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Femke is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Belgium

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Фемке

32 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)

196019802000Femke Halsema, b. 1966Femke Wolting, b. 1970Femke Maes, b. 1980Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissen, b. 1983Femke Heemskerk, b. 1987Femke de Vries, b. 1994Femke Markus, b. 1996Femke van der Steen, b. 1999Femke Bol, b. 2000Femke Kok, b. 2000

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)

InformalHallo Femke,Hi Femke, (English)

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 29 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Femke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—21K#103
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—19K#194
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)2001369#15
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)2002321#17
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)2000306#19
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)2005267#23
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)2003264#25
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)2017251#45
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)2004242#27
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)2006199#46
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)1999191#41
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)1997186#47

Reference works 2

  • 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 Femke mean, and where does it come from?
Pace / Ragazzina Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
How do you pronounce Femke?
A machine transcription gives /fɛmkə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
In which country does Femke have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Femke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled femke.
Where is Femke most common?
Femke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 835 people carrying it.
Is Femke a male or female name?
Femke 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 Femke?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 20,683 people named Femke, about 1 in 835 residents.
How common is Femke compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Femke is the 163rd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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 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, “Femke” — the 163rd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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