tregje

Tregje is a Dutch toponym used for small rural settlements in the northern Netherlands. The name is of Frisian origin and occurs in several locations, where it designates hamlets or cluster settlements that are administratively part of a larger municipality.

The element -je is a diminutive in Dutch, while treg is a root found in a number of Frisian and Dutch place names; the precise meaning of the root is not consistently established. As a result, Tregje does not correspond to a single unified locality but to multiple places sharing the same name.

In typical usage, a place called Tregje is village-like but small, with agricultural surroundings, farm buildings, and limited on-site services. It usually relies on nearby towns for schools, shops, and government services. The hamlet status means it may not have separate formal boundaries or a parish of its own in contemporary administrative frameworks.

Historically, names like Tregje appear in medieval and early modern documents as part of parish and land records, reflecting the long-standing pattern by which Frisian and Dutch communities named settlements after landscape features or ownership.

See also: Toponymy of Friesland; List of places with Frisian-origin placenames.