Jantje
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: a (Dutch) marine or sailor
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jantje is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 636(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 231K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 251K
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
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 636 (inferred from the name graph)
27,173 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a (Dutch) marine or sailor
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jantje is read(measured from records)
Jantje is one spelling over 4 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.
- Dutch38%
a (Dutch) marine or sailor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jantje in Indonesian.
- German16%
weibl. Vom. friesischer Herkunft, weibliche Bildung zu
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jantje in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Jantje 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 | 27,173 | 1 in 636 | 27K | Jantje | 49 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 406K | listed | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 231K | 1 | Jantje | 61 |
| US United States | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Jantje | 47 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 921K | — | Jantje | 4 |
| BE Belgium | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Jantje | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | — | 1 |
27,173 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); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the id-github-names register. 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)
Jantje is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Deminutīvs nīderlandiešu vārdam Jans; ironiski: holandietis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Jantje Cornelia Struikb. 1848NLDutch criminal (1848-1908)
- Jantje Bottemab. 1870NLDutch photographer
- Jantje Hendrikxb. 1923NLDutch singer (1923–2009)
- Janny Jalvingb. 1923NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter (1923–2022)
- Jantje Koopmansb. 1924NLDutch singer (1924-2013)
- Jantje Tienkampb. 1936NLDutch speed skater
- Cobie Buterb. 1946NLnot in their usual nameDutch swimmer
- Jannie Visscherb. 1961NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician
- Jantje Fleischhutb. 1972NLjewelry designer (born 1972)
- Jantje Frieseb. 1977DEGerman screenwriter and film producer
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 27K | #66 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 21K | #150 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 330 | #2,118 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 162 | #6,129 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #23,749 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2014 | 1 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Jantje mean, and where does it come from?
- a (Dutch) marine or sailor Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jantje a male or female name?
- Jantje 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 Jantje?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jantje have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Jantje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jantje.
- Where is Jantje most common?
- Jantje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 636 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jantje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 27,173 people named Jantje, about 1 in 636 residents.
What do you want to know about Jantje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jantjeThe 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, “Jantje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.