Godelieve
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Prénom médiéval d’origine germanique, « aimée de Dieu »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɣodəlivə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Godelieve is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. In Burundi it is the 55th most common given name.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 7.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BIBurundi≈1 in 12K
- NLNetherlands1 in 18K
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.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Prénom médiéval d’origine germanique, « aimée de Dieu ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Godelieve 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #792 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Godelieve | 63 |
| BI Burundi | #55 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 3 | Godelieve | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 956 | 1 in 18K | 928 | Godelieve | 29 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 615K | 10 | Godelieve | 88 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 1 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Godelieve is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French (Walloon): from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements god god or g d good + liob dear. It is thus a feminine equivalent of German GOTTLIEB . St Godleva or Godliva (Latinized forms of the name) was murdered in the 11th century by her husband, Bertulf of Ghistelles; she has a cult in Flanders as a suffering innocent, and the name is still in use there.
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)
- Lieve Van Dammeb. 1912BEnot in their usual nameFlemish poet, 1912-1998
- Godelieve Maria De Meyerb. 1923BEBelgian historian (1923-2001)
- Godelieve Devosb. 1926BEBelgian politician
- Godelieve Spiessensb. 1932BEBelgian musicologist, art historian and musician (1932–2020)
- Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohlb. 1947DEGerman politician
- Godelieve van Heterenb. 1958NLDutch politician
- Godeliève Mukasarasib. 1959RWRwandan social worker, founder and coordinator of SEVOTA
- Godelieve Gheysenb. 1959researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-1929-5059
- Godelieve Jansensb. 1964BEcyclist
- Godelieve Schramab. 1969NLDutch harpist
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 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 928 | #1,350 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 462 | #3,370 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 28 | #9,527 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #27,933 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1918 | 10 | #461 |
| BI Burundi | CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #14 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #623 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
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
- What are other forms of the name Godelieve?
- In the etymology graph, Godeliva is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Godelieve?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣodəlivə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Godelieve a male or female name?
- Godelieve 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.
- What does the name Godelieve mean?
- Recorded meaning: Prénom médiéval d’origine germanique, « aimée de Dieu ».
- In which country does Godelieve have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Godelieve in Belgium, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled godelieve.
- How common is the name Godelieve?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 956 people named Godelieve, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Godelieve compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Godelieve is the 792nd most common given name of 59,589 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/godelieveThe 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, “Godelieve” — the 792nd most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.