Femke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pace / Ragazzina (Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Statbel, 2024
/ˈfɛm.kə/(recorded in a dictionary) Dutch · from Wiktionary
Femke is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 20,683 people, counted by the Meertens NVB.
- NLNetherlands1 in 835(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.4K
- DEGermany≈1 in 120Kfew 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
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 835 (inferred from the name graph)
20,683 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Femke
- Dutch:/ˈfɛm.kə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Pace / Ragazzina
Cited for this meaning 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Femke 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 | #163 | 20,683 | 1 in 835 | 21K | Femke | 115 |
| BE Belgium | #565 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 5 | Femke | 80 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 1 | Femke | 60 |
| FR France | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 859K | — | Femke | 75 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Femke | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Femke | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 37 | 1 in 159K | 37 | Femke | 13 |
20,683 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); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Femke Halsemab. 1966NLDutch mayor of Amsterdam and former political leader of GroenLinks
- Femke Heemskerkb. 1987NLDutch swimmer
- Femke Bolb. 2000NLDutch athletics competitor
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Femke mean, and where does it come from?
- Pace / Ragazzina Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- How do you pronounce Femke?
- In Dutch /ˈfɛm.kə/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Femke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Femke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled femke. After it come Belgium, Germany, France and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Femke most common?
- Femke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 835 people carrying it.
- Is Femke a male or female name?
- Femke is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- How common is the name Femke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 20,683 people named Femke, about 1 in 835 residents.
- How common is Femke compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Femke is the 163rd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/femkeThe 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, “Femke” — ranked 103rd in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.