Anouk

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anouk is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 93rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French: said to be a pet form of pAnne.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 797◐
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.3K
  • FRFrance1 in 6.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈34K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
241 ●

36K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 797 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

AnoukLatin · French●56K records
ΑνουκGreek · Greek●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

French: said to be a pet form of pAnne. It is famous as the adopted name of the French film actress Anouk Aimée.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Anouk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#17721,69313K rec.1 in 79722KAnouk117
FR France#92810,79015K rec.1 in 6.3K11KAnouk241
BE Belgium#3894,7271.8K rec.—18Anouk81
DE Germany—1,663916 rec.—6Anouk88
CA Canada—1,398579 rec.—1Anouk62
CH Switzerland#5341,184355 rec.—68Anouk52
AR Argentina—747472 rec.—6Anouk27
AU Australia—732636 rec.—1Anouk63
AT Austria—53418 rec.—163Anouk19
US United States—4612K rec.1 in 722K461Anouk106
GB United Kingdom—443318 rec.—3Anouk57
ES Spain—282385 rec.1 in 177K282Anouk24

Roughly 22K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 797). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French56K32%
  • Western Frisian41K23%
  • Dutch39K22%
  • English28K16%
  • German3.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French55,66032%
Western Frisian41,21223%
Dutch38,57622%
English28,35216%
German3,6402%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Anouk is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name107 records spelled Anouk12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Türkiye, Croatia, Switzerland

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Anuk, Анук

  • Russian given name95 records spelled Anouk9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Анук, Anuk, Ânûk

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

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Anouk in Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01), Canada, 1991–2024
Yearrecords
199116
199217
199323
199426
199531
199620
199712
199822
199923
200016
200120
200217
200323
200418
200527
200635
200731
200834
200927
201029
201129
201216
201322
201414
201523
201626
201719
201812
201912
202017
202117
20228
20236
202410

CA Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) — 34 years between 1991–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Anouk Ferjac, b. 1932Anouk Grinberg, b. 1963Emmanuelle Bach, b. 1968Anouk Ricard, b. 1970Anouk, b. 1975Carice van Houten, b. 1976Anouk Hoogendijk, b. 1985Anouk Dekker, b. 1986Anouk Vergé-Dépré, b. 1992Anouk Vetter, b. 1993

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 53 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Anouk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—22K#94
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—20K#175
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202411K#250
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020461#21,475
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—282#6,914
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—248#3,471
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024163#678
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—119#7,588
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—114#7,067
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)201795#146
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—90#1,734
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—88#5,852

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 352 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Anouk?
We estimate roughly 34 thousand people bear Anouk (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Anouk have the most bearers?
We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Anouk in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled anouk.
Where is Anouk most common?
Anouk is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 797 people carrying it.
How common is Anouk compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Anouk is the 177th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
Is Anouk a male or female name?
Anouk 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 Anouk mean?
Recorded meaning: French: said to be a pet form of pAnne.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Anouk” — the 177th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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