Nienke (), also spelled Nynke, is Dutch and West Frisian feminine given name of West Frisian origin. It is a diminutive of Nine which is probably derived from Catharina. It is the given name of over 14,000 women in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Nienke (), also spelled Nynke, is Dutch and West Frisian feminine given name of West Frisian origin. It is a diminutive of Nine which is probably derived from Catharina. It is the given name of over 14,000 women in the Netherlands and Belgium.
==Etymology== Nienke was originally a West Frisian name. It is a diminutive, indicated by the suffix , of the West Frisian name Nine. Nine is probably a flattery form or children's form for the name Catharina, which comes from the Greek word () meaning clean or pure.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).