Jelle
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jelle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed with gelt-, cognate with the verb gelten ‘sacrifice’, ‘repay’.
- NLNetherlands1 in 795(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.6K
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.8M
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
- 154 (measured from records)
- 1 in 795 (inferred from the name graph)
21,748 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Germanic personal name composed with gelt-, cognate with the verb gelten ‘sacrifice’, ‘repay’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jelle 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 | #151 | 21,748 | 1 in 795 | 22K | Jelle | 154 |
| BE Belgium | #497 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 6 | Jelle | 116 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 221K | 1 | Jelle | 68 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 576K | — | Jelle | 26 |
| US United States | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 328 | Jelle | 114 |
| SE Sweden | — | 72 | 1 in 142K | 72 | Jelle | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Jelle | 10 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 124K | 96 | Jelle | 8 |
21,748 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jelle is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
probably a variant of Jelley.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Jelle Zijlstrab. 1918NLPrime Minister of the Netherlands (1918-2001)
- Jelle ten Rouwelaarb. 1980NLDutch footballer and coach
- Jelle Amersfoortb. 1980NLDutch television presenter, voice actor and musician
- Jelle Van Dammeb. 1983BEBelgian footballer (born 1983)
- Jelle de Jongb. 1987NLDutch actor (born 1987)
- Jelle Vossenb. 1989BEBelgian association football player
- Jelle Wallaysb. 1989BEBelgian road bicycle racer
- Jelle Florizooneb. 1995BEDutch actor and pop singer
- Jelle van Vuchtb. 1996NLDutch YouTuber (born 1996)
- Jelle Duinb. 1999NLassociation football player
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 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 22K | #114 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 17K | #223 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 174 | #92 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 72 | #10,686 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #11,998 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 50 | #8,424 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 18 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 17 | #21,429 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 17 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Jelle mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed with gelt-, cognate with the verb gelten ‘sacrifice’, ‘repay’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Jelle have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Jelle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jelle.
- Where is Jelle most common?
- Jelle is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 795 people carrying it.
- Is Jelle a male or female name?
- Jelle is a male 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 Jelle?
- In the etymology graph, William, Guillermo and Willie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Wilhelmus.
- How common is the name Jelle?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21,748 people named Jelle, about 1 in 795 residents.
- How common is Jelle compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Jelle is the 151st most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jelle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jelleThe 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, “Jelle” — the 151st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.