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All around the world, Maatje (Mattie
, Maatje
) is a common female forename. The first name Maatje is characteristic of the United States, where it is quite a rare female name, Ireland, where it is quite a rare masculine name, and Netherlands, where it is a rare unisex name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in the United States, South Africa, and Indonesia. Much less frequently, Maatje is the last name as well as the forename.
VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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Mattie | South Africa, Taiwan, United States, Canada, Netherlands |
Maatje | Indonesia, South Africa, United States, Canada, Netherlands |
Maatje is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Spider-Woman , the Mattie Franklin, a superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe; Mattie the Goose-boy , the literary work and Mattie Ross , the main character and narrator of Charles Portis's novel True Grit.