Neeltje
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, a nickname for Cornelia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/neːltjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neeltje is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 596(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 166K
- SESweden1 in 329K
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
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 596 (inferred from the name graph)
28,998 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, a nickname for Cornelia
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neeltje 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 | 28,998 | 1 in 596 | 29K | Neeltje | 69 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Neeltje | 8 |
| US United States | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Neeltje | 44 |
| GH Ghana | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Neeltje | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 1 | Neeltje | 27 |
| BE Belgium | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 360K | — | Neeltje | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 31 | 1 in 329K | 31 | — | 1 |
28,998 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). 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)
Neeltje 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 German, weibl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesische
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Neeltje de Vliegerb. 1600NLDutch painter
- Neeltje Lokerseb. 1868NLDutch Servant (1868-1954)
- Neeltje van Munsterb. 1900NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Catherina Reijsb. 1903NLnot in their usual nameDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Neeltje Krijtheb. 1909NLDutch agricultural engineer, resistance fighter during WW-II and Righteous Among The Nations, 1909-1990
- Neeltje van der Hoekb. 1912NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Neeltje Maria Minb. 1944NLDutch poet and writer
- Neeltje Kortewegb. 1944NLDutch sculptor (born 1944)
- Neeltje van Horenb. 1974NLeconomist (Bank of England)
- Neeltje de Vreeb. 1990NLDutch actor
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 29K | #56 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 20K | #173 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2016 | 40 | #333 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31 | #18,765 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 27 | #465 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 20 | #11,716 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 10 | — |
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 Neeltje mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, a nickname for Cornelia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Neeltje a male or female name?
- Neeltje 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 Neeltje?
- In the etymology graph, Lia, Cora and Cornelia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Neeltje?
- A machine transcription gives /neːltjə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Neeltje have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Neeltje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neeltje.
- Where is Neeltje most common?
- Neeltje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 596 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Neeltje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 28,998 people named Neeltje, about 1 in 596 residents.
What do you want to know about Neeltje?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neeltjeThe 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, “Neeltje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.