Maertens
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: Americanized spelling of German Martens, a variant of Martens
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maʁtɛnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maertens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 28th most common surname.
- BEBelgium1 in 1Kas Martens(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.4Kas Martens
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.5Kas Martens
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 Maertens 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 named Martens, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, as Martens
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Martens in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 4 more.
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)
Americanized spelling of German Martens, a variant of Martens.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Maertens is read(measured from records)
Maertens is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Maertens in French.
- English29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Maertens in English.
- Dutch20%
Americanized spelling of German Martens, a variant of Martens.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
patronymic from Maerten, a variant of Martin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- German9.3%
Vermutlich umgelautete Schreibvariante; ae kann hier nicht als Dehnungs-e gelten. 304 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Umlautform zu Martin in ae-Schreibung; zeigt ae-Variante gegenüber ä. Bearerzahl: 304.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maertens 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #246 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Martens | 190 |
| NL Netherlands | #77 | 12,235as Martens | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Martens | 122 |
| BE Belgium | #28 | 11,199as Martens | 1 in 1K | 11K | Martens | 117 |
| US United States | — | 10,096as Martens | 1 in 33K | 10K | Martens | 379 |
| CA Canada | #906 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Martens | 175 |
| NO Norway | — | 616as Martens | 1 in 8.9K | 616 | Martens | 34 |
| DK Denmark | #999 | 570as Martens | 1 in 10K | 570 | Martens | 69 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-1 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hermann Eduard Maertensb. 1823DEGerman architect (1823-1898)
- Willy Maertensb. 1893DEGerman actor (1893–1967)
- Bob Maertensb. 1930BEBelgian footballer (1930-2003)
- Peter Maertensb. 1931DEGerman actor (1931–2020)
- Freddy Maertensb. 1952BEBelgian cyclist
- Kai Maertensb. 1958DEGerman actor
- Michael Maertensb. 1963DEGerman actor
- Miriam Maertensb. 1970DEGerman actress
- Birger Maertensb. 1980BEBelgian footballer
- Mathieu Maertensb. 1995BEBelgian 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.6K | #211 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.4K | #219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 551 | #42,381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 522 | #41,657 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 486 | #42,056 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 165 | #12,468 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #36,827 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Maertens mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of German Martens, a variant of Martens. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maertens?
- A machine transcription gives /maʁtɛnz/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Maertens have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Martens in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maertens most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Maertens itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Belgium's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people named Martens.
- How common is the name Maertens?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 12,235 people named Martens in 2007, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Maertens compared with other names?
- In Germany, Maertens is the 246th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maertens?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maertensThe 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, “Maertens” — the 246th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.