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Martijn

Boys' name

English equivalent of Martin

Martijn has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2001, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Martijn, 2001

1 in 748,000

Martijn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Martijn: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Martin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Martijn means

Martijn is a English equivalent of Martin.

Origin, language, and formation

Martijn is used in Dutch.

Martijn comes through Middle Dutch Martijn, Old French Martin and Latin Martinus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Martin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Martijn is pronounced /mɑrˈtɛi̯n/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Martijn between 2001 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2001; its best national rank was #11,688 in 2001.

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 Martijn?

Martijn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Martijn 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Martijn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Martijns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Martijn was born before 2001 — so the typical Martijn is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Martijn 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 2001 (5)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,688
2001

Spellings of Martijn

Martijn is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 47.2% against Martijn'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.

Martijn around the world

Where Martijn 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–1998
    #2,901
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Martijn 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
#11,688
2001
Peak year
2001
5 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Martijn

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

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Sibling names for Martijn

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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