Maaike
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maaike is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von.
- NLNetherlands1 in 733◐
- BEBelgium1 in 8.2K
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈24K ●
- Sources
- 121 ●
- 1 in 733 ◐
across 6 countries
15K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #170 | 23,562△ | 11K rec. | 1 in 733 | 24K | Maaike | 121 |
| BE Belgium | #953 | 1,892 | 960 rec. | — | 5 | Maaike | 59 |
| FR France | — | 393 | 321 rec. | — | listed | Maaike | 70 |
| AU Australia | — | 372 | 337 rec. | — | 1 | Maaike | 44 |
| DE Germany | — | 320 | 281 rec. | — | — | Maaike | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 231 | 175 rec. | — | — | Maaike | 35 |
| US United States | — | 171 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 171 | Maaike | 87 |
| CA Canada | — | 145 | 112 rec. | — | 1 | Maaike | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | 142 | 26 rec. | — | 112 | Maaike | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 50△ | 16 rec. | 1 in 204K | 50 | Maaike | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 44 | 47 rec. | — | — | Maaike | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 39 | 13 rec. | — | — | Maaike | 12 |
Roughly 24K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 733). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian42K37%
- Dutch38K33%
- English27K24%
- German1.2K1%
- French8201%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 42,454 | 37% |
| Dutch | 37,939 | 33% |
| English | 27,371 | 24% |
| German | 1,156 | 1% |
| French | 820 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 47 |
| 1996 | 58 |
| 1997 | 39 |
| 1998 | 44 |
| 1999 | 50 |
| 2000 | 41 |
| 2001 | 36 |
| 2002 | 51 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| 2004 | 29 |
| 2005 | 54 |
| 2006 | 25 |
| 2007 | 26 |
| 2008 | 30 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 20 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2017 | 5 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 22 years between 1995–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maaike Jansenb. 1941FRFrench actress
- Maike Meijerb. 1967NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress and screenwriter (born 1967)
- Maaike Cafmeyerb. 1973BEBelgian actress
- Maaike Martensb. 1976NLDutch actress and singer
- Maaike Headb. 1983NLDutch rower
- Maaike Neuvilleb. 1983BEBelgian film director and actor
- Maaike Vosb. 1985NLDutch speed skater
- Maaike Polspoelb. 1989BEBelgian cyclist
- Maaike de Waardb. 1996NLDutch swimmer
- Senne Lynenb. 1999BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player (born 1999)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 24K | #81 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 19K | #196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 171 | #42,229 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 112 | #7,173 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1996 | 58 | #199 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2005 | 54 | #187 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 51 | #189 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 50 | #13,675 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 50 | #213 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1995 | 47 | #225 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1998 | 44 | #242 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2000 | 41 | #251 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 86 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maaike?
- We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Maaike (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maaike have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Maaike in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maaike.
- Where is Maaike most common?
- Maaike is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 733 people carrying it.
- How common is Maaike compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Maaike is the 170th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Maaike a male or female name?
- Maaike 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.
- What does the name Maaike mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maaike” — the 170th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.