Jette
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jette is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a short form of a Germanic personal name with a first element related to Middle High German gate ‘companion’.
- DKDenmark1 in 275◐
- GLGreenland1 in 1.8K
- NLNetherlands1 in 14K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈23K ●
- Sources
- 131 ●
- 1 in 275 ◐
across 9 countries
6.7K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
from a short form of a Germanic personal name with a first element related to Middle High German gate ‘companion’. A Jette from the Anjou region of France is documented in Montreal in 1659 with the secondary surname Durivage.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 24 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #58 | 21,342△ | 5.4K rec. | 1 in 275 | 21K | Jette | 131 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,242△ | 58 rec. | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Jette | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | 732 | 62 rec. | — | 648 | Jette | 19 |
| US United States | — | 390 | 671 rec. | 1 in 853K | 1.5K | Jette | 119 |
| SE Sweden | — | 218△ | 44 rec. | 1 in 47K | 218 | Jette | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 145 | 129 rec. | — | — | Jette | 24 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 47 | 47 rec. | — | — | Jette | 4 |
| GL Greenland | #350 | 32 | 1 rec. | — | 27 | Jette | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 27 | 37 rec. | — | — | Jette | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 21 | 199 rec. | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | Jette | 17 |
| FI Finland | — | 15△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 371K | 58 | — | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | 7 | 7 rec. | 1 in 50K | 7 | Jette | 6 |
Roughly 21K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 275). 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●
- Danish90K85%
- English5.1K5%
- German3.8K4%
- Western Frisian2.1K2%
- Dutch1.4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 89,969 | 85% |
| English | 5,123 | 5% |
| German | 3,836 | 4% |
| Western Frisian | 2,094 | 2% |
| Dutch | 1,365 | 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●
Jette is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
surname bestowed on a foundling, from jete ‘thrown out’. It is Americanized sometimes as Trow and also as Stay.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, ) Jetta: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Dutch, a Belgian municipality, at the north side of Brussels
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, inflection of jeter:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, jotun
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 181 |
| 2000 | 188 |
| 2001 | 193 |
| 2002 | 192 |
| 2003 | 195 |
| 2004 | 198 |
| 2005 | 194 |
| 2006 | 197 |
| 2007 | 198 |
| 2008 | 200 |
| 2009 | 196 |
| 2010 | 196 |
| 2011 | 199 |
| 2012 | 202 |
| 2013 | 198 |
| 2014 | 197 |
| 2015 | 194 |
| 2016 | 190 |
| 2017 | 187 |
| 2018 | 182 |
| 2019 | 178 |
| 2020 | 178 |
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●
- Jette Bangb. 1914DKDanish photographer
- Jette Sandahlb. 1947Danish museum director
- Jette Lehmannb. 1957production designer
- Jette Sørensenb. 1961DKDanish rower
- Jette Albinusb. 1966DKDanish army general
- Jette F. Christensenb. 1983NONorwegian politician
- Jette Hansenb. 1987DKDanish handball player
- Jette Heringb. 1993DEGerman actress
- Jette Müllerb. 2003DEGerman diver
- Jette Loona HermanisEEEstonian actor and artist
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 44 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 294 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jette?
- We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Jette (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jette have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Jette in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jette.
- Where is Jette most common?
- Jette is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 275 people carrying it.
- How common is Jette compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jette is the 58th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
- Is Jette a male or female name?
- Jette 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 Jette mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a short form of a Germanic personal name with a first element related to Middle High German gate ‘companion’.
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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.
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, “Jette” — the 58th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.