Auke

given name · Latin script

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

Auke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 155K
  • ISIceland1 in 351K

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)

6,456 people

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Auke 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 Auke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#7106,4561 in 2.7K6.2KAuke98
DE Germany—≈93 est.≈1 in 863K—Auke39
BE Belgium—≈75 est.≈1 in 155K5Auke15
ZA South Africa—≈74 est.≈1 in 764K—Auke8
US United States—≈51 est.≈1 in 6.5M—Auke55
CH Switzerland—≈18 est.≈1 in 478K—Auke4
NO Norway—≈11 est.≈1 in 514K254Auke10
IS Iceland—11 in 351K1——

6,456 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Auke is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Aůke, Åuke

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Åuke, Äuke

34 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)

Auke 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.

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, an amount added; an increase, addition

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, partitive plural of auk

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, increase

    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)

160017001800190020002100Auke Stellingwerf, b. 1635Auke Komter, b. 1904Auke Tellegen, b. 1930Auke de Jong, b. 1933Auke de Vries, b. 1937Dick Rienstra, b. 1941Auke Scholma, b. 1956Auke Zijlstra, b. 1964Auke Hulst, b. 1975Auke Swevers, b. 2004

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 15 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Auke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—254#6,138

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

Is Auke a male or female name?
Auke 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 Auke?
In the etymology graph, Aurelio, Dino and Agustín are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Auke have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Auke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled auke.
Where is Auke most common?
Auke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Auke?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,456 people named Auke, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Auke compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Auke is the 710th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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, “Auke” — the 710th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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