Jouke
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒuːkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jouke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 785K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
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
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,661 people
Reference-verified
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)
Jouke 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 | 2,661 | 1 in 6.5K | 2.6K | Jouke | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | — | 15 | — | — |
2,661 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jouke Bakkerb. 1873NLDutch politician (1873-1956)
- Jouke Broer Schuilb. 1875NLDutch playwright and writer (1875-1960)
- Anne Jouke Osingab. 1885NLDutch publisher
- Jouke Kuipersb. 1901NLDutch association football player (1901-1986)
- Jurjen Beumerb. 1947NLnot in their usual nameDutch theologian and preacher (1947-2013)
- Jouke Hoekstrab. 1948NLDutch conductor, trumpeter and musicologist
- Jouke de Vriesb. 1960NLDutch professor
- Jouke Pieter Kardolusb. 1966botanist
- Jouke Hoogeveenb. 1979NLDutch speed skater
- Jouke WitteveenNLPh.D. Universiteit van Amsterdam 2020
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.6K | #588 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.7K | #1,504 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 87 | #6,029 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 60 | #10,666 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #31,639 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #32,484 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #30,975 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #13,025 |
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
- How do you pronounce Jouke?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒuːkə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Jouke a male or female name?
- Jouke 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 Jouke have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Jouke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jouke.
- Where is Jouke most common?
- Jouke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jouke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,661 people named Jouke, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jouke?
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/joukeThe 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, “Jouke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.