Maarten
given name · Dutch · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maarten is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Dutch and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Martin.
- NLNetherlands1 in 408◐
- SESweden1 in 1.8K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈49K ●
- Sources
- 175 ●
- 1 in 408 ◐
across 10 countries
26K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mårten in SE Sweden, FI Finland, BJ Benin.
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●
a male given name, equivalent to English Martin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 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 | #110 | 42,311△ | 16K rec. | 1 in 408 | 42K | Maarten | 172 |
| SE Sweden | #457 | 5,784△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 5.8K | Mårten | 50 |
| BE Belgium | #349 | 5,268 | 4.5K rec. | — | — | Maarten | 134 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 421 | 281 rec. | — | — | Maarten | 65 |
| FI Finland | — | 393△ | 69 rec. | 1 in 14K | 575 | Mårten | 8 |
| US United States | — | 371 | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 897K | 371 | Maarten | 175 |
| NO Norway | — | 290 | 119 rec. | — | 228 | Maarten | 22 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 242 | 203 rec. | — | — | Maarten | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | 164 | 129 rec. | — | — | Maarten | 46 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 136 | 87 rec. | — | — | Maarten | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 92 | 66 rec. | — | — | Maarten | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 54 | 213 rec. | 1 in 926K | 54 | Maarten | 52 |
Roughly 42K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 408). 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●
- Dutch73K34%
- Western Frisian71K33%
- English51K24%
- German3.3K2%
- French2.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | 73,213 | 34% |
| Western Frisian | 70,678 | 33% |
| English | 51,267 | 24% |
| German | 3,282 | 2% |
| French | 2,156 | 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●
Maarten 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 German, männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesi sche und niederländische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Dutch form of MARTIN , now rather less common than Martijn .
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 20 |
| 2000 | 23 |
| 2001 | 27 |
| 2002 | 27 |
| 2003 | 29 |
| 2004 | 30 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 32 |
| 2007 | 36 |
| 2008 | 41 |
| 2009 | 42 |
| 2010 | 42 |
| 2011 | 44 |
| 2012 | 44 |
| 2013 | 47 |
| 2014 | 50 |
| 2015 | 49 |
| 2016 | 51 |
| 2017 | 54 |
| 2018 | 59 |
| 2019 | 63 |
| 2020 | 63 |
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●
- Maarten van Heemskerckb. 1498NLDutch painter (1498–1574)
- Martin van Cleveb. 1527BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter and draftsman (c.1527–1581)
- Marten de Vosb. 1532BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter, draughtsman (1532-1603)
- Maarten Trompb. 1598NLDutch admiral (1598-1653)
- Maarten Schmidtb. 1929NLDutch astronomer (1929–2022)
- Maarten 't Hartb. 1944NLDutch writer (1944)
- Martin Jolb. 1956NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager
- Maarten Treurnietb. 1959NLDutch film director
- Maarten Stekelenburgb. 1982NLDutch footballer (born 1982)
- Maarten Vandevoordtb. 2002BEBelgian footballer
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 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 42K | #53 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 28K | #90 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 371 | #25,390 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 206 | #4,704 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 128 | #4,528 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 127 | #7,273 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 63 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 63 | — |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 59 | #268 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 59 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54 | #26,091 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 54 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 90 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maarten?
- We estimate roughly 49 thousand people bear Maarten (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maarten have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 42 thousand people bear Maarten in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maarten.
- Where is Maarten most common?
- Maarten is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 408 people carrying it.
- How common is Maarten compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Maarten is the 110th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Maarten a male or female name?
- Maarten is a male 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 Maarten mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Martin
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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.
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, “Maarten” — the 110th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.