Geertje
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: diminutive of geer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɣeːr.tjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Geertje is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 632(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 64K
- DEGermany≈1 in 336K
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)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 632 (inferred from the name graph)
27,333 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of geer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Geertje is read(measured from records)
Geertje 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.
- Dutch67%
diminutive of geer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Geertje in English.
- German8.1%
weibl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Geertje 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 | #586 | 27,333 | 1 in 632 | 27K | Geertje | 81 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 336K | — | Geertje | 48 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 5 | Geertje | 34 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 614K | — | Geertje | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Geertje | 42 |
| SE Sweden | — | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
27,333 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); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Geertje Dircxb. 1610NLRembrandt's mistress after the death of his wife Saskia
- Geertje Torsiusb. 1893NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Geertje Kuijntjesb. 1905NLDutch supercentenarian
- Greet Koemanb. 1910NLnot in their usual nameDutch opera soprano
- Geertje Scholtenb. 1917NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Geertje Wielemab. 1934NLswimmer (1934-2009)
- Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholtb. 1938NLDutch politician and scientist (1938-2014)
- Gini Vliegerb. 1938NLnot in their usual nameDutch pianist (1938–2018)
- Geertje Suhrb. 1943DEGerman novelist and poet
- Geertje Andresenb. 1962DEGerman author
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 27K | #63 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 20K | #177 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #21,772 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 20 | #11,716 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #7,748 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7 | #35,090 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 5 | #1,159 |
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 Geertje mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of geer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Geertje?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣeːr.tjə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Geertje a male or female name?
- Geertje 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 Geertje?
- In the etymology graph, Gertrude, Trudy and Gertrud are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Gertruida and Geertruida.
- In which country does Geertje have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Geertje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geertje.
- Where is Geertje most common?
- Geertje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 632 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Geertje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 27,333 people named Geertje, about 1 in 632 residents.
- How common is Geertje compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Geertje is the 586th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Geertje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geertjeThe 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, “Geertje” — the 586th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.