# Mertens (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mertens/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,375 |
| US rank (2010) | 7,597 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 70,570 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.9% (4,017 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mertens in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Mertens in Belgium.

## People named Mertens

- Dries Mertens, Belgian association football player (born 1987)
- Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player
- Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer (1991–2015)
- Pierre Mertens, Belgian writer
- Jan Mertens, Belgian bicycle racer (1904-1964)
- Peter Mertens, Belgian sociologist and politician
- Stéphane Mertens, Belgian motorcycle racer
- Joseph Mertens, Belgian archaeologist (1921-2007)
- Yannick Mertens, Belgian tennis player

## Similar surnames

Martins, Martens, Martines, Maertens, Marten, Merten, Merton, Martinez, Martin, Morton, Martino, Mortensen.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.