Anje
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., friesische Koseform von
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Spain (INE): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: naampy, 2014
/ɑnjə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Anje is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 53Kfew records
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 130Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
3,209 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)weibl. Vom., friesische Koseform von
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Anje 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 | 3,209 | 1 in 5.4K | 3.2K | Anje | 29 |
| DE Germany | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 164K | listed | Anje | 46 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Anje | 29 |
| IN India | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 9 | Anje | 10 |
| BE Belgium | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Anje | 22 |
| SY Syria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Anje | 3 |
3,209 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 duden-vornamen-2007 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)- Anje Duhaldeb. 1950FRsinger-songwriter
- Anje Gnoddeb. 1963NLDutch poet
- Anje Hoshib. 1987JPJapanese AV idol
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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Anje mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., friesische Koseform von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- How do you pronounce Anje?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /ɑnjə/; in Swahili /ɑnʄe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Anje a male or female name?
- Anje is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Spain (INE): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Anje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Anje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anje. After it come Germany, South Africa, India and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Anje most common?
- Anje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Anje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,209 people named Anje, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Anje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anjeThe 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, “Anje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.