Uncommon Dutch Girl Names

Dutch naming includes compact everyday forms as well as longer formal names. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

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History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1882.

123#1,677
Down 800 rank positions in five years
1961

Recorded in Dutch as Désirée; in U.S. records from 1910.

151#1,429
Down 368 rank positions in five years
1983

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1909.

46#3,369
Down 154 rank positions in five years
1980

Recorded in Dutch as Adriënne; in U.S. records from 1880.

123#1,673
Down 614 rank positions in five years
1983

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1912.

17#6,597
Down 1,686 rank positions in five years
1986

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1916.

9#10,453
Down 4,497 rank positions in five years
1960

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880.

10#9,734
Down 542 rank positions in five years
1924

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880.

26#4,990
Down 105 rank positions in five years
1917

Recorded in Dutch as Mariëlle; in U.S. records from 1920.

121#1,699
Up 67 rank positions in five years
2016

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1881.

36#4,010
Up 573 rank positions in five years
1922

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1883.

83#2,218
Up 932 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1888.

24#5,369
Up 3,491 rank positions in five years
1919

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1915.

—Unranked
—
1961

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1917.

10#9,861
Up 4,621 rank positions in five years
1999

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1971.

21#5,782
Up 367 rank positions in five years
2008

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1916.

12#8,552
Up 613 rank positions in five years
2021

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1903.

14#7,591
Down 2,538 rank positions in five years
2020

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1884.

—Unranked
—
1916

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1929.

7#12,363
new
1958

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1894.

10#9,463
Up 1,645 rank positions in five years
2014

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1917.

—Unranked
—
1920

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1974.

—Unranked
—
1974

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 2010.

—Unranked
—
2010

Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 2014.

—Unranked
—
2014

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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