Merten
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a variant of the personal name Martin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɝtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merten is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
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)
from a variant of the personal name Martin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
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)
Merten is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., niederdeutsche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Finnish, genitive plural of meri
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Low German form of MARTIN .
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)
- Otto Mertenb. 1874DEGerman politician
- Karl-Friedrich Mertenb. 1905DEGerman World War II U-boat commander
- Hans Mertenb. 1908DEGerman politician (1908-1967)
- Max Mertenb. 1911DEGerman jurist (1911–1976)
- Marieluise Deißmann-Mertenb. 1935DEGerman historian of ancient history
- Christa Mertenb. 1944DEGerman athletics competitor
- Ulrike Mertenb. 1951DEGerman politician
- Kenneth H. Mertenb. 1961USAmerican diplomat
- Thorsten Mertenb. 1963DEGerman actor
- Michaela Mertenb. 1964DEGerman actress and author
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 38 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,117 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,302 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 399 | #20,772 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 101 | #10,978 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 66 | #25,862 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 39 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 37 | #32,073 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Merten mean, and where does it come from?
- from a variant of the personal name Martin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Merten?
- In the etymology graph, Martin, Martins and Martino are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Merten?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɝtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Merten have the most bearers?
- Merten is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Merten?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mertenThe 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, “Merten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.