Femke
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Femke is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pace / Ragazzina.
- NLNetherlands1 in 837◐
- BEBelgium1 in 2.2K
- DEGermany1 in 140K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈21K ●
- Sources
- 102 ●
- 1 in 837 ◐
across 7 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
Pace / Ragazzina
Sources 1
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Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #196 | 20,654△ | 9.7K rec. | 1 in 837 | 21K | Femke | 102 |
| BE Belgium | #249 | 7,027 | 2.3K rec. | — | 5 | Femke | 71 |
| DE Germany | — | 865 | 783 rec. | — | 1 | Femke | 60 |
| US United States | — | 507 | 365 rec. | — | 5 | Femke | 61 |
| FR France | — | 382 | 337 rec. | — | — | Femke | 69 |
| AU Australia | — | 238 | 217 rec. | — | — | Femke | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 236 | 183 rec. | — | — | Femke | 36 |
| NO Norway | — | 73 | 7 rec. | — | 72 | Femke | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 61△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 167K | 61 | Femke | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 46 | 38 rec. | — | — | Femke | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 37△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 159K | 37 | Femke | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 32 | 136 rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 32 | Femke | 10 |
Roughly 21K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 837). 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●
- Western Frisian40K37%
- Dutch38K35%
- English24K22%
- German1.6K2%
- French7821%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 39,584 | 37% |
| Dutch | 37,935 | 35% |
| English | 23,544 | 22% |
| German | 1,632 | 2% |
| French | 782 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 137 |
| 1996 | 159 |
| 1997 | 186 |
| 1998 | 181 |
| 1999 | 191 |
| 2000 | 306 |
| 2001 | 369 |
| 2002 | 321 |
| 2003 | 264 |
| 2004 | 242 |
| 2005 | 267 |
| 2006 | 199 |
| 2007 | 168 |
| 2008 | 172 |
| 2009 | 139 |
| 2010 | 143 |
| 2011 | 102 |
| 2012 | 88 |
| 2013 | 66 |
| 2014 | 58 |
| 2015 | 49 |
| 2016 | 29 |
| 2017 | 33 |
| 2018 | 26 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 5 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 30 years between 1995–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Femke Halsemab. 1966NLDutch mayor of Amsterdam and former political leader of GroenLinks
- Femke Woltingb. 1970NLDutch film producer (born 1970)
- Femke Maesb. 1980BEassociation football player
- Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissenb. 1983NLDutch politician
- Femke Heemskerkb. 1987NLDutch swimmer
- Femke de Vriesb. 1994NLDutch cyclist
- Femke Markusb. 1996NLDutch road cyclist and speed skater
- Femke van der Steenb. 1999BEFlemish actress
- Femke Bolb. 2000NLDutch athletics competitor
- Femke Kokb. 2000NLDutch speed skater
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 21K | #103 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 19K | #194 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2001 | 369 | #15 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 321 | #17 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2000 | 306 | #19 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2005 | 267 | #23 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2003 | 264 | #25 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 251 | #45 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2004 | 242 | #27 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2006 | 199 | #46 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 191 | #41 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 186 | #47 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 88 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Femke?
- We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Femke (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Femke have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Femke in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled femke.
- Where is Femke most common?
- Femke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 837 people carrying it.
- How common is Femke compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Femke is the 196th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Femke a male or female name?
- Femke 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 Femke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pace / Ragazzina
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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, “Femke” — the 196th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.