Lieke

given name · Western Frisian · Latin script

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

Lieke is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from LEUTE; short form of Lieker < Leodegar.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.2K◐
  • BEBelgium1 in 20K
  • IDIndonesia1 in 266K

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

Meaning & origin●

from LEUTE; short form of Lieker < Leodegar

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Where Lieke is recorded, by country
CountryShare of this name
NL Netherlands55,45896%
BE Belgium7941%
US United States3811%
ID Indonesia3421%
FR France1831%

≈57,158 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).

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 Frisian30K51%
  • English17K30%
  • Dutch7.7K13%
  • German6571%
  • Indonesian4171%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Western Frisian29,67951%
English17,28030%
Dutch7,73813%
German6571%
Indonesian4171%

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●

Lieke 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 stq, A dead body; corpse

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, electricity

    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●

02040608020002010202067 · 2008

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Lieke in Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns), Belgium, 1996–2024
Yearrecords
199610
19976
19989
19995
200011
20026
20037
200411
200522
200630
200739
200867
200932
201035
201136
201234
201345
201426
201517
201619
201715
201817
201917
202019
202118
202215
202312
202412

BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 28 years between 1996–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1980199020002010Lieke van Lexmond, b. 1982Lieke Klaus, b. 1989Lieke Marsman, b. 1990Lieke Wevers, b. 1991Lieke Martens, b. 1992Lieke van Wijk, b. 1993Lieke Klaver, b. 1998Lieke Rogge, b. 2000Lieke Nooijen, b. 2001

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 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Lieke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—15K#143
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—14K#276
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)2017391#24
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)200867#160
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)201345#239
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)200739#265
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)201136#303
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)201035#299
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)201234#307
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—32#38,124
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)200932#325
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)200630#347

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 · 83 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lieke?
Our records include 57,158 bearers of Lieke across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Lieke have the most bearers?
Lieke is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
Is Lieke a male or female name?
Lieke 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 Lieke mean?
Recorded meaning: from LEUTE; short form of Lieker < Leodegar
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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, “Lieke”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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