Trijntje
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Trijntje is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Katharina.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.1K◐
- DKDenmark1 in 531K
- ESSpain1 in 8.8M
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Meaning & origin●
a diminutive of the female given name Katharina
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 105,796 | 100% |
| US United States | 166 | 1% |
| DK Denmark | 50 | 1% |
| FR France | 41 | 1% |
| ES Spain | 38 | 1% |
≈106,091 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 Frisian48K45%
- Dutch31K29%
- English27K26%
- German731%
- French591%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 47,759 | 45% |
| Dutch | 30,696 | 29% |
| English | 27,387 | 26% |
| German | 73 | 1% |
| French | 59 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Trijntje Keeverb. 1616NLTallest female (1616-1633)
- Trijntje Pieters Westrab. 1783NLDutch ice skater (1783-1861)
- Trijntje Reidingab. 1799NLDutch speed skater
- Trijntje van Berkumb. 1872NLeditor
- Trijntje van Exterb. 1888NLDutch Esperantist and organizer
- Trijntje van Heerdeb. 1896NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Tine Winters-van Asperenb. 1912NLnot in their usual name(1912-1987)
- Kit Winkelb. 1916NLnot in their usual nameDutch choreographer
- Trix van Brusselb. 1920NLnot in their usual nameDutch writer (1920-2019)
- Trijnie Repb. 1950NLnot in their usual namespeed 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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 27K | #64 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 21K | #151 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 26 | #46,971 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #30,409 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 14 | #14,610 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #7,204 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2007 | 1 | #32,896 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1993 | 1 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
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 · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Trijntje?
- Our records include 106,091 bearers of Trijntje across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Trijntje have the most bearers?
- Trijntje is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- Is Trijntje a male or female name?
- Trijntje 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 Trijntje mean?
- Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Katharina
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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, “Trijntje”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.