Fedde
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fedde is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and English, written in the Latin script.
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.2K◐
- BEBelgium1 in 2.4M
- CACanada1 in 11M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.1K ◐
- Sources
- 74 ●
- 1 in 8.2K ◐
across 5 countries
3.1K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | ≈2.1K△ | 600 rec. | 1 in 8.2K | 3.8K | Fedde | 29 |
| US United States | ≈9 | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 38M | 256 | Fedde | 74 |
| BE Belgium | ≈5 | 5 rec. | 1 in 2.4M | — | Fedde | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 | 119 rec. | 1 in 19M | — | Fedde | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 | 45 rec. | 1 in 11M | — | Fedde | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 72 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | 36 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | — | — | 9 | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 2.1K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 8.2K). 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●
- Western Frisian6.6K47%
- English3.9K27%
- Dutch3.5K25%
- Spanish511%
- French431%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 6,644 | 47% |
| English | 3,860 | 27% |
| Dutch | 3,466 | 25% |
| Spanish | 51 | 1% |
| French | 43 | 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●
- Fedde Schurerb. 1898NLDutch schoolteacher, journalist, language activist, politician and poet (1898-1968)
- Fedde Weidemab. 1915NLDutch painter and graphic designer (1915-2000)
- Alex Fedde Kalverboerb. 1931NLDutch university teacher
- Fedde Jonkmanb. 1941NLDutch politician
- Fedde le Grandb. 1977NLDutch DJ and record producer
- Fedde de Jongb. 2003NLDutch association football player
- Fedde Leysenb. 2003BEBelgian footballer
- Fedde van DijkNLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 3.8K | #461 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 2.9K | #1,096 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2016 | 267 | #52 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 262 | #50 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 256 | #75,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 253 | #71,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 235 | #85,600 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 72 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 72 | #38,546 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 69 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 69 | #39,270 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #31,471 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-03 data build · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fedde?
- We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Fedde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fedde have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.1 thousand people bear Fedde in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fedde.
- Where is Fedde most common?
- Fedde is densest in the Netherlands, where we estimate about 1 in 8.2 thousand people carry it.
- Is Fedde a male or female name?
- Fedde is a male 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://nelma-api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/feddeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Fedde”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.