Maarten
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Martin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maːrtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maarten is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 408(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.5K
- SESweden1 in 1.8Kas Mårten
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maarten itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 408 (inferred from the name graph)
42,360 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mårten in SE Sweden, FI Finland, BJ Benin.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Martin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maarten counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #86 | 42,360 | 1 in 408 | 42K | Maarten | 184 |
| BE Belgium | #290 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Maarten | 147 |
| SE Sweden | #473 | 5,784as Mårten | 1 in 1.8K | 5.8K | Mårten | 59 |
| BJ Benin | #492 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Mårten | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Maarten | 34 |
| FI Finland | — | 393as Mårten | 1 in 14K | 575 | Mårten | 9 |
42,360 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maarten is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesi sche und niederländische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Dutch form of MARTIN , now rather less common than Martijn .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maarten van Heemskerckb. 1498NLDutch painter (1498–1574)
- Martin van Cleveb. 1527BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter and draftsman (c.1527–1581)
- Marten de Vosb. 1532BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter, draughtsman (1532-1603)
- Maarten Trompb. 1598NLDutch admiral (1598-1653)
- Maarten Schmidtb. 1929NLDutch astronomer (1929–2022)
- Maarten 't Hartb. 1944NLDutch writer (1944)
- Martin Jolb. 1956NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager
- Maarten Treurnietb. 1959NLDutch film director
- Maarten Stekelenburgb. 1982NLDutch footballer (born 1982)
- Maarten Vandevoordtb. 2002BEBelgian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 42K | #53 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 28K | #90 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 128 | #2,576 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 127 | #7,273 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 63 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 63 | — |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 59 | #268 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 59 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 54 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 50 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 49 | #8,528 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Maarten?
- A machine transcription gives /maːrtən/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What does the name Maarten mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Martin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Maarten?
- In the etymology graph, Marty, Marcin and Tin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Maarten a male or female name?
- Maarten is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Maarten have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Maarten, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maarten.
- Where is Maarten most common?
- Maarten is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 408 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maarten?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 42,360 people named Maarten, about 1 in 408 residents.
- How common is Maarten compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Maarten is the 86th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maarten?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maartenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maarten” — the 86th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.