Antje
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Antje is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch.
- NLNetherlands1 in 762◐
- DEGermany1 in 1.1K
- ESSpain1 in 407K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈24K ●
- Sources
- 206 ●
- 1 in 762 ◐
across 7 countries
113K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #225 | 108,386 | 97K rec. | — | 1 | Antje | 206 |
| NL Netherlands | #205 | 22,676△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 762 | 23K | Antje | 59 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 945 | 777 rec. | — | — | Antje | 53 |
| FR France | — | 901 | 664 rec. | — | listed | Antje | 124 |
| AU Australia | — | 807 | 717 rec. | — | 1 | Antje | 62 |
| US United States | — | 692 | 7.1K rec. | 1 in 481K | 692 | Antje | 184 |
| AT Austria | — | 498 | 259 rec. | — | 21 | Antje | 45 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 446 | 259 rec. | — | — | Antje | 40 |
| BE Belgium | — | 427 | 231 rec. | — | 6 | Antje | 33 |
| NO Norway | — | 308 | 80 rec. | — | 288 | Antje | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 244 | 227 rec. | — | — | Antje | 33 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 214 | 12 rec. | — | — | Antje | 28 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German116K53%
- Western Frisian40K19%
- English28K13%
- Dutch26K12%
- Spanish1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 115,606 | 53% |
| Western Frisian | 40,153 | 19% |
| English | 28,092 | 13% |
| Dutch | 26,152 | 12% |
| Spanish | 1,031 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Antje is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Antja: weibl. Vom., friesische und niederländische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Low German and Dutch: pet form of ANNE .
as a word
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 66 |
| 2000 | 69 |
| 2001 | 75 |
| 2002 | 80 |
| 2003 | 82 |
| 2004 | 83 |
| 2005 | 90 |
| 2006 | 92 |
| 2007 | 105 |
| 2008 | 110 |
| 2009 | 109 |
| 2010 | 110 |
| 2011 | 112 |
| 2012 | 112 |
| 2013 | 115 |
| 2014 | 116 |
| 2015 | 121 |
| 2016 | 123 |
| 2017 | 126 |
| 2018 | 118 |
| 2019 | 117 |
| 2020 | 121 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Antje Weisgerberb. 1922DEGerman actress (1922–2004)
- Antje Hagenb. 1938DEGerman actress
- Antje Vollmerb. 1943DEGerman politician (1943–2023)
- Antje Jackelénb. 1955SESwedish theologist, Church of Sweden archbishop between June 2014 and October 2022
- Antje Weithaasb. 1966DEGerman violinist
- Antje Boetiusb. 1967DEGerman marine biologist and university teacher (born 1967)
- Antje Westermannb. 1971DEGerman actress
- Antje Buschschulteb. 1978DEGerman swimmer
- Antje Traueb. 1981DEGerman actress
- Antje Möldner-Schmidtb. 1984DEGerman middle distance runner
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 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 23K | #87 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 17K | #216 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 692 | #16,344 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 288 | #3,670 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 162 | #6,092 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 126 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 123 | #13,393 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 123 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 121 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 121 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 118 | #4,886 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 118 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 125 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Antje?
- We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Antje (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Antje have the most bearers?
- Antje is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled antje.
- Where is Antje most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Antje is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 762 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Antje compared with other names?
- In Germany, Antje is the 225th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Antje a male or female name?
- Antje 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 Antje mean?
- Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Anna, from West Frisian or Dutch
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Antje” — the 225th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.