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Femke

Girls' name

Diminutive of Fem

Femke has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Femke, 1999

1 in 738,000

Femke over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Femke: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Fem

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Femke means

Femke is a diminutive of Fem.

Origin, language, and formation

Femke is used in Dutch.

Femke comes through West Frisian Femke.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fem.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Femke is pronounced /ˈfɛm.kə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Femke between 1999 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1999; its best national rank was #15,177 in 1999.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Femke?

Femke had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Femke sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Femke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Femkes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Femke was born before 1999 — so the typical Femke is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Femke rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (5)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#15,177
1999

Spellings of Femke

Femke is not the most common spelling — Ferne is, with 46.9% against Femke's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Femke around the world

Where Femke ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2010
    #4,012
    in 2010
  • France
    2008–2008
    #4,791
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Femke by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#15,177
1999
Peak year
1999
5 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Femke

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Femi

Sibling names for Femke

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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