# Maarten (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maarten/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Dutch |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmɑː.tɪn/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 29 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Maarten.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | 3,871 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,419 |
| 1992 | 6 | 8,049 |
| 1998 | 5 | 10,647 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,807 |

## People named Maarten

- Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer (born 1982)
- Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (1598-1653)
- Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (1498–1574)
- Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (1929–2022)
- Maarten Vandevoordt, Belgian footballer
- Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch long-distance swimmer
- Maarten Martens, Belgian association football player
- Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch racing cyclist
- Maarten 't Hart, Dutch writer (1944)
- Maarten Paes, Dutch-Indonesian footballer
- Maarten van der Linden, Dutch rower
- Maarten den Bakker, Dutch racing cyclist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.