Entry № 3293 · Frisian origin

Femke Femke — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FEM-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Frisian
Meaning
"Little maiden, peace"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Frisian)

A name that means "little maiden, peace".

Femke is a Frisian and Dutch name — the diminutive of Femme, from Old Frisian fem (maiden) or frem (peace, stranger).

Femke is widely used in the Netherlands and northern Germany. Femke Halsema (born 1966), the mayor of Amsterdam from 2018, is a contemporary bearer.

Little maiden. The Frisian diminutive.

The name in its native script.

Femke
Transliteration
Femke
Pronunciation
/ ˈfɛm.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Femke stands.

Femke does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Femkes before her.

Real people
Femke Halsema
Mayor of Amsterdam.
born 1966
In fiction
Femke
Common in Dutch fiction.

Names connected to Femke.

The number behind Femke.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Femke reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.