Bauke
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑukə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bauke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 928K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
3,574 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bauke 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 | 3,574 | 1 in 4.8K | 3.4K | Bauke | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Bauke | 20 |
3,574 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Bauke Jan Hagab. 1890NLCivil servant in the Netherlands Indies
- Bauke Tuinstrab. 1900NLDutch writer
- Bauke Miedemab. 1909NLDutch astronomer (1909-1995)
- Bauke Roolvinkb. 1912NLDutch politician (1912-1979)
- Bauke de Jongb. 1931essayist
- Bauke Weistrab. 1932NLDutch drawer
- Peter Boorsmab. 1944NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician
- Bauke Mollemab. 1986NLDutch road racing cyclist
- Bauke Albadab. 2000NLresearcher
- Bauke van Boheemenactor
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 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Bauke?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑukə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Bauke a male or female name?
- Bauke 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.
- In which country does Bauke have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Bauke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bauke.
- Where is Bauke most common?
- Bauke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bauke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,574 people named Bauke, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bauke?
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/baukeThe 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, “Bauke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.