Yente
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Statbel, 2012
/jɛntə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Yente is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 36K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 37Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 19Mfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
486 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
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)Yente 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 | 486 | 1 in 36K | 466 | Yente | 19 |
| BE Belgium | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 5 | Yente | 31 |
| US United States | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 29M | — | Yente | 29 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Yente | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Yente | 2 |
486 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). 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)Yente is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Jewish: Yiddish name, probably a back-formation from Yentl (apparently from the French nickname Gentille ‘kind, nice’), the - l being interpreted as a Yiddish hypocoristic suffix. The Yiddish vocabulary word yente , derived from the name, denotes a gossipy woman.
as a word
In osp, clan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In txb, wind
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)- Yente Serdatzkyb. 1877LTAmerican Yiddish-language writer
- Yente Mashb. 1922ILMoldovan-born Israeli Yiddish author
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 466 | #2,099 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 421 | #3,584 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 20 | #11,716 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2001 | 20 | #444 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1998 | 18 | #496 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 18 | #494 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2009 | 15 | #666 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2006 | 15 | #624 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1996 | 15 | #552 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2010 | 14 | #702 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2005 | 14 | #622 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 14 | #604 |
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 Yente?
- In the etymology graph, Yentl is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Yente?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /jɛntə/; in Polish /ɨɛn̪t̪ɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Yente a male or female name?
- Yente is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Yente have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 486 people named Yente, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yente.
- Where is Yente most common?
- Yente is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yente?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 486 people named Yente, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yente?
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/yenteThe 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, “Yente”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.