Entry № 3564 · Dutch origin

Geertje Geertje — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Dutch
Meaning
"A brave little spear"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a brave little spear".

Geertje is a name of Dutch origin, meaning a brave little spear.

A brave little spear — a Dutch name.

The name in its native script.

Geertje
Transliteration
Geertje
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Geertje stands.

Geertje 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.

Geertjes before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Geertje.

The number behind Geertje.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Geertje reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.