Antje

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Antje is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 761(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.1K
  • USUnited States1 in 481K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈73,000 people, est.

Sources
216 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 761 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Antje 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.

Where Antje is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#227≈73,000 est.≈1 in 1.1KlistedAntje216
NL Netherlands#88122,6941 in 76123KAntje57
CH Switzerland—≈730 est.≈1 in 12K—Antje45
US United States—6921 in 481K692Antje202
AT Austria—≈530 est.≈1 in 17K21Antje43
BE Belgium—≈320 est.≈1 in 37K6Antje34

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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Antje is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Switzerland, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Антье

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Antje is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, ) Antja: weibl. Vom., friesische und niederländische Koseform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Low German and Dutch: pet form of ANNE .

    as a word

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)

19201940196019802000Antje Weisgerber, b. 1922Antje Hagen, b. 1938Antje Vollmer, b. 1943Antje Jackelén, b. 1955Antje Weithaas, b. 1966Antje Boetius, b. 1967Antje Westermann, b. 1971Antje Buschschulte, b. 1978Antje Traue, b. 1981Antje Möldner-Schmidt, b. 1984

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 19 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Antje mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Antje a male or female name?
Antje 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 common is the name Antje?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 22,694 people named Antje, about 1 in 761 residents.
How common is Antje compared with other names?
In Germany, Antje is the 227th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What are other forms of the name Antje?
In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Antje have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Antje in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled antje.
Where is Antje most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Antje is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 761 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.

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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, “Antje” — the 227th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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