Jente
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., friesische Bildung zu
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɛn.tə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jente is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 7.3K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 17K
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 205K
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
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,358 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jen-Te in TW Taiwan.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom., friesische Bildung zu
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jente 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 | 2,358 | 1 in 7.3K | 1.8K | Jente | 43 |
| BE Belgium | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 5 | Jente | 56 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Jen-Te | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Jente | 32 |
| US United States | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | Jente | 53 |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 3 | — | — |
2,358 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 duden-vornamen-2007 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jente 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.
In Norwegian Bokmål, girl; young woman
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)
- Jente Feige Billerb. 1874CZHolocaust victim (born 1874)
- Jente Olinerováb. 1884PLHolocaust victim (born 1884)
- Jente Brodb. 1897ATHolocaust victim (born 1897)
- Jente Posthumab. 1974NLDutch writer
- Jente Van Ongevalb. 1983BEBelgian association football player
- Jente Bouckaertb. 1990BEBelgian sprinter
- Jente Paesenb. 1990BEbadminton player
- Jente Hauttekeeteb. 2002BEBelgian athlete
- Jente Michelsb. 2003BEBelgian Cyclist
- Jente Koopsb. 2007NLDutch cyclist
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 11 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Jente mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., friesische Bildung zu Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- How do you pronounce Jente?
- A machine transcription gives /jɛn.tə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Jente a male or female name?
- Jente 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.
- In which country does Jente have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Jente, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jente.
- Where is Jente most common?
- Jente is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jente?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,358 people named Jente, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jente?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jenteThe 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, “Jente”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.