Jannetje
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given names Johanna or Janna
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ja.nə.tjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jannetje is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 801(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 589K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 764K
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
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 801 (inferred from the name graph)
21,584 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given names Johanna or Janna
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jannetje 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 | 21,584 | 1 in 801 | 22K | Jannetje | 33 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 764K | — | Jannetje | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 589K | — | Jannetje | 2 |
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | — | Jannetje | 27 |
| DE Germany | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Jannetje | 16 |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Jannetje | 15 |
21,584 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Jannetje Hootsenb. 1860NLReligious leaders from the Netherlands
- Jannetje Stahlieb. 1896NL(1896-1923)
- Jannetje Visser-Roosendaalb. 1899NLDutch novelist
- Hannie Schaftb. 1920NLnot in their usual nameDutch communist resistance fighter and martyr (1920–1945)
- Jannetje van Beekb. 1922NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Jannetje Koelewijnb. 1959NLDutch journalist and writer
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 22K | #96 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 16K | #248 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 25 | #10,206 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #31,141 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | — | — |
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 Jannetje mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given names Johanna or Janna Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jannetje?
- A machine transcription gives /ja.nə.tjə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Jannetje a male or female name?
- Jannetje 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.
- In which country does Jannetje have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Jannetje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jannetje.
- Where is Jannetje most common?
- Jannetje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 801 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jannetje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21,584 people named Jannetje, about 1 in 801 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jannetjeThe 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, “Jannetje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.