Marotte
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: habitational name from ’t Marot in Wormhout, Marote in Lichtervelde, or Marottes in Klabbeek, Brabant
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maʁɔt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marotte is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from ’t Marot in Wormhout, Marote in Lichtervelde, or Marottes in Klabbeek, Brabant.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marotte is read(measured from records)
Marotte is one spelling over 3 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.
- French42%
habitational name from ’t Marot in Wormhout, Marote in Lichtervelde, or Marottes in Klabbeek, Brabant.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of the female personal name Marie.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
bauble (grotesque sceptre carried by a jester)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Cette sorte de sceptre généralement surmonté d’une tête ornée d’un capuchon et de grelots (qui fut d’abord une poupée) était l’instrument typique des bouffons médiévaux et renaissants. Le mot tire son nom d’un diminutif de Marie. Il ne prit son sens de monomanie ou de caprice qu’au XVII e siècle. Voir Mariol(le) et Marionnette .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- English28%
A jester's dummy, bauble, or sceptre.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marotte in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Marotte 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 German, quirk, idiosyncrasy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Léon Marotteb. 1862FRFrench painter and graphic artist (born 1862)
- Guy Marotteb. 1941FRFrench politician
- Luis Marotteb. 1944UYUruguayan footballer and coach
- Gilles Marotteb. 1945CACanadian ice hockey defenceman
- Cécile Marotteb. 1946FRFrench writer
- Philippe Marotteb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Carl Marotteb. 1959CACanadian actor
- Maxime Marotteb. 1986FRFrench bicycle racer
- Ginette MarotteCACanadian politician
- Lucie MarotteCACanadian singer
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 605 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 340 | #56,246 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 331 | #64,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 285 | #68,949 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 236 | #7,130 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 212 | #8,471 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 196 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 191 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 187 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 184 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 170 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 165 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Marotte mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from ’t Marot in Wormhout, Marote in Lichtervelde, or Marottes in Klabbeek, Brabant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marotte?
- A machine transcription gives /maʁɔt/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Marotte have the most bearers?
- Marotte is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marotteThe 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
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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, “Marotte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.