Hylke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male or female given name from West Frisian
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɦilkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hylke is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- BEBelgium
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male or female given name from West Frisian
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hylke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a tall and narrow tub or cask made of a hollowed out block of wood
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hylke Jans Kingmab. 1708NLDutch skipper (1708-1782)
- Hylke de Boerb. 1918NLDutch architect
- Hylke Trompb. 1935NLDutch university teacher (1935-2021)
- Hylke Speerstrab. 1936NLDutch writer and journalist
- Hylke Trompb. 1944NLDutch musician
- Hylke van Sprundelb. 1970NLDutch actor (born 1970)
- Ids Postmab. 1973NLnot in their usual nameDutch speed skater
- Hylke Dijkstrab. 1983NLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-3637-5296
- Hylke van Slootenb. 1987NLDutch field hockey player (1987-2017)
- Hylke VandenbusscheBEeconomist (KU Leuven)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.2K | #931 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 910 | #2,214 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 71 | #6,836 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 57 | #10,957 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #53,016 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hylke mean, and where does it come from?
- a male or female given name from West Frisian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hylke?
- A machine transcription gives /ɦilkə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Hylke a male or female name?
- Hylke 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.
- In which country does Hylke have the most bearers?
- Hylke is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Hylke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hylkeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Hylke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.