Marjatta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A virgin mother in the Kalevala, resembling the Virgin Mary
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/ˈmɑrjɑtːɑ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Marjatta is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
- RURussia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
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 virgin mother in the Kalevala, resembling the Virgin Mary.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marjatta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #174 | — | 124K | Marjatta | 52 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 3.5K | Marjatta | 22 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | Marjatta | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Marjatta | 15 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Marjatta | 65 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Marjatta | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 24 | Marjatta | 5 |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Marjatta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Marjatta är ett finskt namn, som förekommer i Kalevala. Det är troligen en bildning till → Marja.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)- Aila Meriluotob. 1924FInot in their usual nameFinnish poet, author and translator (1924-2019)
- Kirsi Kunnasb. 1924FInot in their usual nameFinnish author, poet and translator
- Raili Pietiläb. 1926FInot in their usual nameFinnish architect (1926–2021)
- Marjatta Kajosmaab. 1938FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Marjatta Hietalab. 1943FIFinnish historian
- Marjatta Raitab. 1944FIFinnish actress (1944–2007)
- Käpy Paavilainenb. 1947FInot in their usual nameFinnish architect
- Liisa Helminenb. 1950FInot in their usual nameFinnish film director and screenwriter
- Marjatta Tapiolab. 1951FIFinnish painter (born 1951)
- Karita Mattilab. 1960FInot in their usual nameFinnish operatic soprano
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Marjatta?
- In Finnish /ˈmɑrjɑtːɑ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Marjatta mean, and where does it come from?
- A virgin mother in the Kalevala, resembling the Virgin Mary. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Marjatta?
- In the etymology graph, Mora, May and Maia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marjatta have the most bearers?
- Marjatta is most frequently recorded in Finland, where it is most often spelled marjatta.
- How common is Marjatta compared with other names?
- In Finland, Marjatta is the 174th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marjattaThe 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, “Marjatta” — the 174th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.