Martijn

given name · Dutch · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Martijn is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Dutch and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Middle Dutch Martijn, from Old French Martin, from Latin Martinus, from Mars + -inus. Compare English Martin.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 397◐
  • BEBelgium1 in 11K
  • DEGermany1 in 110K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈44K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
179 ●

39K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 397 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

MartijnLatin · Dutch●83K records
МартајнCyrillic · Serbian●0 records

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●

Derivation of Martijn: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Martijn
  1. Middle DutchMartijn●
  2. Old FrenchMartin●
  3. LatinMartinus●
  4. Mars+●

From Middle Dutch Martijn, from Old French Martin, from Latin Martinus, from Mars + -inus. Compare English Martin.

Sources 1

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Martijn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#6843,51133K rec.1 in 39744KMartijn179
BE Belgium—1,4261.2K rec.—35Martijn70
DE Germany—1,107906 rec.——Martijn53
GB United Kingdom—605455 rec.——Martijn48
AU Australia—520463 rec.——Martijn59
NO Norway—19171 rec.—120Martijn16
US United States—1811.7K rec.1 in 1.8M181Martijn119
CH Switzerland—13297 rec.——Martijn18
FI Finland—1098 rec.—98Martijn9
SE Sweden—100△35 rec.1 in 102K100Martijn13
CA Canada—9387 rec.——Martijn22
AT Austria—7448 rec.——Martijn16

Roughly 44K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 397). 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●

  • Dutch83K37%
  • Western Frisian74K33%
  • English52K23%
  • German3.4K2%
  • French1.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Dutch82,95437%
Western Frisian73,56733%
English51,88823%
German3,3722%
French1,8181%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Martijn is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name176 records spelled Martijn6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Belgium, United States, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Мартейн, Мартеин

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

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Martijn in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2004–2020
Yearrecords
200412
200514
200616
200721
200822
200922
201024
201124
201225
201325
201430
201530
201630
201731
201833
201935
202037

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 17 years between 2004–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Martijn Padding, b. 1956Martijn Krabbé, b. 1968Martyn LeNoble, b. 1969Martijn Oversteegen, b. 1971Floris van Oranje-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, b. 1975Martijn Spierenburg, b. 1975Martijn Westerholt, b. 1979Martijn Wydaeghe, b. 1992Martijn Lakemeier, b. 1993Martin Garrix, b. 1996

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 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Martijn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—44K#52
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—30K#80
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007789#2,272
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020181#40,711
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—120#6,846
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—102#5,456
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—100#8,526
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—98#5,235
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—53#26,489
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—47#13,547
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202637#4,152
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202037—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 53 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Martijn?
We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Martijn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Martijn have the most bearers?
We estimate about 44 thousand people bear Martijn in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled martijn.
Where is Martijn most common?
Martijn is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 397 people carrying it.
How common is Martijn compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Martijn is the 68th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
Is Martijn a male or female name?
Martijn 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 Martijn mean?
Recorded meaning: From Middle Dutch Martijn, from Old French Martin, from Latin Martinus, from Mars + -inus. Compare English Martin.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Martijn” — the 68th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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