Marjatta
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marjatta is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A virgin mother in the Kalevala, resembling the Virgin Mary.
- FIFinland1 in 73◐
- SESweden1 in 2.9K
- EEEstonia1 in 283K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈80K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 60 ●
- 1 in 73 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
1.5K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Марьятта in RU Russia.
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 virgin mother in the Kalevala, resembling the Virgin Mary.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #16 | 76,228△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 73 | 124K | Marjatta | 47 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,493△ | 125 rec. | 1 in 2.9K | 3.5K | Marjatta | 20 |
| US United States | — | 190 | 184 rec. | — | — | Marjatta | 60 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 36 | 36 rec. | — | — | Marjatta | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 35 | 17 rec. | — | — | Marjatta | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 25 | 22 rec. | — | 24 | Marjatta | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 23 | 16 rec. | — | — | Marjatta | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 19△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 909K | 19 | Marjatta | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | 15 | 12 rec. | — | listed | Marjatta | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | 12 | 11 rec. | — | — | Marjatta | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 11 | — | 1 in 3.5M | 11 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | 5 | 16 rec. | — | — | Марьятта | 24 |
Roughly 76K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 73). 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●
- Finnish452K99%
- English9541%
- German1671%
- Chinese1611%
- Spanish1601%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 451,507 | 99% |
| English | 954 | 1% |
| German | 167 | 1% |
| Chinese | 161 | 1% |
| Spanish | 160 | 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●
Marjatta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Marjatta är ett finskt namn, som förekommer i Kalevala. Det är troligen en bildning till → Marja.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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 | 658 |
| 2000 | 652 |
| 2001 | 649 |
| 2002 | 650 |
| 2003 | 646 |
| 2004 | 641 |
| 2005 | 638 |
| 2006 | 634 |
| 2007 | 626 |
| 2008 | 612 |
| 2009 | 604 |
| 2010 | 597 |
| 2011 | 588 |
| 2012 | 569 |
| 2013 | 560 |
| 2014 | 552 |
| 2015 | 539 |
| 2016 | 532 |
| 2017 | 514 |
| 2018 | 499 |
| 2019 | 488 |
| 2020 | 473 |
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●
- Aila Meriluotob. 1924FInot in their usual nameFinnish poet, author and translator (1924-2019)
- Kirsi Kunnasb. 1924FInot in their usual nameFinnish author, poet and translator
- Raili Pietiläb. 1926FInot in their usual nameFinnish architect (1926–2021)
- Marjatta Kajosmaab. 1938FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Marjatta Hietalab. 1943FIFinnish historian
- Marjatta Raitab. 1944FIFinnish actress (1944–2007)
- Käpy Paavilainenb. 1947FInot in their usual nameFinnish architect
- Liisa Helminenb. 1950FInot in their usual nameFinnish film director and screenwriter
- Marjatta Tapiolab. 1951FIFinnish painter (born 1951)
- Karita Mattilab. 1960FInot in their usual nameFinnish operatic soprano
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 124K | #13 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 76K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.5K | #762 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 658 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 652 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 650 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 649 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 646 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 641 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 638 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 634 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 626 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 33 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marjatta?
- We estimate roughly 80 thousand people bear Marjatta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marjatta have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 76 thousand people bear Marjatta in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marjatta.
- Where is Marjatta most common?
- Marjatta is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 73 people carrying it.
- How common is Marjatta compared with other names?
- In Finland, Marjatta is the 16th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Marjatta a male or female name?
- Marjatta 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 Marjatta mean?
- Recorded meaning: A virgin mother in the Kalevala, resembling the Virgin Mary.
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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, “Marjatta” — the 16th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.