Jette
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of a Germanic personal name with a first element related to Middle High German gate ‘companion’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jəd̥ə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 275(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 14K
- NONorway≈1 in 29K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 275 (inferred from the name graph)
21,342 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a short form of a Germanic personal name with a first element related to Middle High German gate ‘companion’. A Jette from the Anjou region of France is documented in Montreal in 1659 with the secondary surname Durivage.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jette 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #60 | 21,342 | 1 in 275 | 21K | Jette | 137 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,269 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Jette | 19 |
| US United States | — | 443 | 1 in 751K | 1.5K | Jette | 126 |
| SE Sweden | — | 218 | 1 in 47K | 218 | Jette | 24 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 648 | Jette | 18 |
| GL Greenland | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 27 | — | 3 |
21,342 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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)
Jette is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
surname bestowed on a foundling, from jete ‘thrown out’. It is Americanized sometimes as Trow and also as Stay.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, ) Jetta: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Dutch, a Belgian municipality, at the north side of Brussels
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, inflection of jeter:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, jotun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jette Bangb. 1914DKDanish photographer
- Jette Sandahlb. 1947Danish museum director
- Jette Lehmannb. 1957production designer
- Jette Sørensenb. 1961DKDanish rower
- Jette Albinusb. 1966DKDanish army general
- Jette F. Christensenb. 1983NONorwegian politician
- Jette Hansenb. 1987DKDanish handball player
- Jette Heringb. 1993DEGerman actress
- Jette Müllerb. 2003DEGerman diver
- Jette Loona HermanisEEEstonian actor and artist
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 44 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Jette mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of a Germanic personal name with a first element related to Middle High German gate ‘companion’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Jette a male or female name?
- Jette 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 do you pronounce Jette?
- A machine transcription gives /jəd̥ə/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What are other forms of the name Jette?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jette have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Jette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jette.
- Where is Jette most common?
- Jette is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 275 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jette?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 21,342 people named Jette, about 1 in 275 residents.
- How common is Jette compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jette is the 60th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jetteThe 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, “Jette” — the 60th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.