Maartje
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Martin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maːrtjeː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maartje is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 906(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 67K
- SESweden1 in 276K
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 Maartje 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 906 (inferred from the name graph)
19,065 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 female given name, masculine equivalent Martin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maartje 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 | #300 | 19,065 | 1 in 906 | 19K | Maartje | 116 |
| US United States | — | 498as Marche | 1 in 668K | 418 | Maartje | 65 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 38 | Maartje | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 514K | 15 | Maartje | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 949K | listed | Maartje | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | 37 | 1 in 276K | 37 | Maartje | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 382K | 21 | Maartje | 5 |
19,065 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the duden-vornamen-2007 register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Maartje 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, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Dutch: feminine form of MAARTEN .
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)
- Maartje Seyferthb. 1945NLfilmmaker from the Netherlands
- Maartje van Puttenb. 1951NLDutch politician
- Maartje Nevejanb. 1960NLDutch actress (born 1959)
- Maartje Kösterb. 1975NLcricketer
- Maartje Scheepstrab. 1980NLOlympic field hockey player
- Maartje Wortelb. 1982NLDutch writer
- Maartje Goderieb. 1984NLfield hockey player
- Maartje Paumenb. 1985NLDutch field hockey player
- Maartje Verhoefb. 1997NLDutch model
- Maartje Keuningb. 1998NLDutch water polo player (1998-)
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 19K | #114 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 14K | #280 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 70 | #190 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2016 | 41 | #326 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 37 | #16,810 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 18 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2001 | 17 | #519 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 15 | #14,023 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 15 | #576 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 14 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Maartje?
- A machine transcription gives /maːrtjeː/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What does the name Maartje mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Martin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Maartje a male or female name?
- Maartje is a female 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 Maartje have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Maartje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maartje.
- Where is Maartje most common?
- Maartje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 906 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Maartje?
- In the etymology graph, Tina, Martina and Martine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Maartje?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 19,065 people named Maartje, about 1 in 906 residents.
- How common is Maartje compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Maartje is the 300th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maartje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maartjeThe 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, “Maartje” — the 300th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.