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Maarten

Boys' name

English equivalent of Martin

Maarten has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Maarten, 2007

1 in 666,000

Maarten over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maarten: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Martin

Dutch

What Maarten means

Maarten is a English equivalent of Martin.

Origin, language, and formation

Maarten is used in English and Dutch. Its origins include Dutch.

Maarten comes through Dutch Maarten.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Martin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Maarten is pronounced /ˈmɑː.tɪn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 29 boys were recorded with the name Maarten between 1962 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1962; its best national rank was #3,870 in 1962.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maarten?

Maarten had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 666,000
6 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 346,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maarten sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maarten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maartens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maarten was born before 1992 — so the typical Maarten is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
29
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1990s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Maarten rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (6)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,870
1962

Spellings of Maarten

Maarten is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 97.1% against Maarten's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Maarten around the world

Where Maarten ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1955–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maarten by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,870
1962
Peak year
1962
6 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
29
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maarten

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maarten

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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