Sjoukje
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Statbel, 2004
/ʃuk.jə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Sjoukje is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 5,285 people, counted by the Meertens NVB.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 729K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
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
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
5,285 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Sjoukje
- Dutch:/ʃuk.jə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sjoukje 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 | 5,285 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.3K | Sjoukje | 72 |
| DE Germany | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Sjoukje | 26 |
| BE Belgium | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 307K | 6 | Sjoukje | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Sjoukje | 3 |
| ES Spain | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Sjoukje | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 423K | — | Sjoukje | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
5,285 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); 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)- Sjoukje Hooymaayerb. 1940NLDutch actor and television actor (1940-2018)
- Sjoukje Dijkstrab. 1942NLDutch figure skater (1942-2024)
- Sjoukje L. van 't Spijkerb. 1950NLDutch singer
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sjoukje?
- In Dutch /ʃuk.jə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sjoukje a male or female name?
- Sjoukje is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Sjoukje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Sjoukje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sjoukje. After it come Germany, Belgium, South Africa and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sjoukje most common?
- Sjoukje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sjoukje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,285 people named Sjoukje, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sjoukjeThe 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, “Sjoukje” — ranked 389th in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.