Bontje
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of bont
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bəntdʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bontje is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 30K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 667K
- SESweden≈1 in 1.8M
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
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
570 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Böntje in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of bont
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bontje 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 | 570 | 1 in 30K | 570 | Bontje | 35 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Bontje | 65 |
| CA Canada | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 667K | — | Bontje | 30 |
| DE Germany | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 7.8M | — | Böntje | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Bontje | 3 |
| SE Sweden | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Bontje | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
570 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Marco Bontjeb. 1973urban geographer
- Rob Bontjeb. 1981NLDutch volleyball player
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 570 | #3,336 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Bontje mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of bont Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bontje?
- A machine transcription gives /bəntdʒ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bontje have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 570 people named Bontje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bontje.
- Where is Bontje most common?
- Bontje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bontje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 570 people named Bontje in 2007, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bontje?
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/bontjeThe 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, “Bontje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.