Maarit
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maarit is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Finland it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Maarit är en finsk form av → Margareta.
- FIFinland1 in 98◐
- THThailand1 in 1.9K
- INIndia1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈234K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 97 ●
- 1 in 98 ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
143K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
17 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Manta in ID Indonesia, PH Philippines, JP Japan and 1 more, Manti in IN India, ZA South Africa, MY Malaysia, Marti in ES Spain, LA Laos and Marty in US United States, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Maarit är en finsk form av → Margareta. Det har i Finland också använts som en form av → Maria. Det kan även vara en finsk skrivform för → Marit.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 28 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 283,406 | 96K rec. | — | 2.1K | Manti | 55 |
| FR France | — | 122,885 | 0 rec. | 1 in 552 | 123K | — | 1 |
| TH Thailand | #292 | 72,674 | 39K rec. | — | #64,821 | มณฑา | 97 |
| FI Finland | #38 | 56,957△ | 3.2K rec. | 1 in 98 | 62K | Maarit | 79 |
| US United States | — | 24,774△ | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 13K | 25K | Marty | 65 |
| ES Spain | — | 17,662△ | 125 rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 35K | Marti | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,371△ | 50 rec. | 1 in 1K | 19K | Maarit | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,516△ | 412 rec. | 1 in 4.1K | 2.5K | Maarit | 35 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1,866△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1K | 1.9K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,648△ | 34 rec. | 1 in 10K | 1.6K | Marty | 4 |
| LA Laos | — | 508 | 25 rec. | — | — | Marti | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 308 | 190 rec. | — | — | Manta | 41 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish246K98%
- English1.6K1%
- Estonian6861%
- Chinese5881%
- German4221%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 246,049 | 98% |
| English | 1,591 | 1% |
| Estonian | 686 | 1% |
| Chinese | 588 | 1% |
| German | 422 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Maarit is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, bunk (of a bunk bed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hif, marriage.
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 712 |
| 2000 | 716 |
| 2001 | 716 |
| 2002 | 708 |
| 2003 | 707 |
| 2004 | 702 |
| 2005 | 697 |
| 2006 | 699 |
| 2007 | 705 |
| 2008 | 700 |
| 2009 | 698 |
| 2010 | 696 |
| 2011 | 696 |
| 2012 | 697 |
| 2013 | 694 |
| 2014 | 694 |
| 2015 | 692 |
| 2016 | 692 |
| 2017 | 691 |
| 2018 | 689 |
| 2019 | 686 |
| 2020 | 680 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maarit Hurmerintab. 1953FIFinnish singer
- Maarit Karppinenb. 1959FIFinnish professor
- Jaana Savolainenb. 1964FInot in their usual nameformer Finnish cross-country skier
- Sari Siikanderb. 1964FInot in their usual nameFinnish actor
- Maarit Lallib. 1964FIFinnish film director
- Virpi Suutarib. 1967FInot in their usual nameFinnish film director
- Anne Mäkinenb. 1976FInot in their usual nameFinnish association football player
- Jaana Pelkonenb. 1977FInot in their usual nameFinnish television host and politician
- Pirjo Heikkiläb. 1980FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress
- Petra Ollib. 1994FInot in their usual nameFinnish sport wrestler
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 62K | #39 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 57K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.5K | #919 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 716 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 716 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 712 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 708 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 707 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 705 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 702 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 700 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 699 | — |
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 · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maarit?
- We estimate roughly 234 thousand people bear Maarit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maarit have the most bearers?
- Maarit is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled manti.
- Where is Maarit most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maarit is densest in Finland — about 1 in 98 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Maarit compared with other names?
- In Finland, Maarit is the 38th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Maarit a male or female name?
- Maarit 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 Maarit mean?
- Recorded meaning: Maarit är en finsk form av → Margareta.
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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, “Maarit” — the 38th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.