Maiken
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maiɡ̊ən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maiken is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Cognate with Swedish Majken and German Meike.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2.1K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,111 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Cognate with Swedish Majken and German Meike.
Sources 2
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maiken 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #308 | 3,111 | 1 in 1.9K | 3.1K | Maiken | 107 |
| NO Norway | #701 | 2,660 | 1 in 2.1K | 9.6K | Maiken | 65 |
| SE Sweden | — | 342 | 1 in 30K | 342 | Maiken | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 5 | Maiken | 40 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 7 | Maiken | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 520K | 1 | Maiken | 4 |
3,111 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the ee-stat-nimed register; Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)
- Maiken Nedergaardb. 1957DKDanish neuroscientist
- Maiken Beitiab. 1963ESSpanish actor
- Maiken With Papeb. 1978Danish tennis player
- Maiken Bentb. 1980Danish artist
- Maiken Piusb. 1985EEEstonian actress (born 1985)
- Maiken Caspersen Fallab. 1990NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Maiken Kolle Riskildb. 1992NONorwegian actress
- Maiken Fruergaardb. 1995DKbadminton player
- Ea Rasmussenb. 2001DKnot in their usual nameDanish footballer (born 2001)
- Maiken BairdUSAmerican documentary film director and producer
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
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
- What does the name Maiken mean, and where does it come from?
- Cognate with Swedish Majken and German Meike. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Maiken a male or female name?
- Maiken 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.
- How do you pronounce Maiken?
- A machine transcription gives /maiɡ̊ən/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What are other forms of the name Maiken?
- In the etymology graph, Mary, Marie and Marilyn are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Maria.
- In which country does Maiken have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Maiken, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maiken.
- Where is Maiken most common?
- Maiken is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maiken?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 3,111 people named Maiken, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Maiken compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Maiken is the 308th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maiken?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maikenThe 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, “Maiken” — the 308th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.