Marijke
given name · Dutch · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marijke 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: Variant of Maria.
- NLNetherlands1 in 744◐
- BEBelgium1 in 4.1K
- USUnited States1 in 809K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈24K ●
- Sources
- 123 ●
- 1 in 744 ◐
across 9 countries
21K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
- Vulgate LatinMaria◐via Maria
- Ancient GreekΜαρίαMaría◐via Maria
- AramaicמריםMaryām◐via Maria
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Maria.
Sources 2
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 | #184 | 23,211△ | 11K rec. | 1 in 744 | 23K | Marijke | 97 |
| BE Belgium | #505 | 3,801 | 3.2K rec. | — | 10 | Marijke | 99 |
| AU Australia | — | 894 | 807 rec. | — | 1 | Marijke | 66 |
| FR France | — | 578 | 437 rec. | — | — | Marijke | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 448 | 372 rec. | — | — | Marijke | 39 |
| US United States | — | 411 | 3K rec. | 1 in 809K | 411 | Marijke | 123 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 359 | 334 rec. | — | — | Marijke | 23 |
| CA Canada | — | 246 | 210 rec. | — | 7 | Marijke | 33 |
| NO Norway | — | 76 | 27 rec. | — | 64 | Marijke | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 71△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 144K | 71 | Marijke | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 63 | 43 rec. | — | — | Marijke | 14 |
| BR Brazil | — | 50 | 21 rec. | — | — | Marijke | 14 |
Roughly 23K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 744). 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●
- Dutch40K34%
- Western Frisian39K33%
- English29K25%
- German2.4K2%
- French1.2K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | 40,451 | 34% |
| Western Frisian | 38,512 | 33% |
| English | 29,203 | 25% |
| German | 2,365 | 2% |
| French | 1,211 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 28 |
| 2000 | 28 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 30 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| 2004 | 30 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 33 |
| 2007 | 33 |
| 2008 | 33 |
| 2009 | 33 |
| 2010 | 35 |
| 2011 | 33 |
| 2012 | 34 |
| 2013 | 35 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 37 |
| 2016 | 39 |
| 2017 | 37 |
| 2018 | 38 |
| 2019 | 43 |
| 2020 | 41 |
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●
- Marijke Van Hemeldonckb. 1931BEBelgian politician
- Sjoukje Hooymaayerb. 1940NLnot in their usual nameDutch actor and television actor (1940-2018)
- Marijke Merckensb. 1940NLDutch actress (1940–2023)
- Marijke Jansenb. 1944NLDutch tennis player
- Marijke de Goeyb. 1947NLDutch visual artist (born 1947)
- Marijke Veugelersb. 1952NLDutch actress (born 1952)
- Marijke Amadob. 1954NLDutch television presenter in German TV
- Marijke Pinoyb. 1958BEBelgian actress
- Lies Visschedijkb. 1974NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress (born 1974)
- Marijke Groenewoudb. 1999NLDutch speed skater
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 30 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 23K | #82 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 15K | #258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 411 | #23,687 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 82 | #4,981 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 71 | #10,738 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 64 | #10,257 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 43 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 41 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 40 | #15,100 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 39 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 38 | #35,064 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 38 | — |
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 · 102 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marijke?
- We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Marijke (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marijke have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 23 thousand people bear Marijke in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marijke.
- Where is Marijke most common?
- Marijke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 744 people carrying it.
- How common is Marijke compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Marijke is the 184th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Marijke a male or female name?
- Marijke 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 Marijke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant of Maria.
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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, “Marijke” — the 184th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.