Marieke
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Statbel, 2020
/maːˈri.kə/(recorded in a dictionary) Dutch · from Wiktionary
Marieke is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 773(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 5.3K
- DEGermany≈1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 773 (inferred from the name graph)
22,352 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marieke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #110 | 22,352 | 1 in 773 | 22K | Marieke | 130 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 2 | Marieke | 111 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 6 | Marieke | 82 |
| FR France | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 355 | — | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Marieke | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Marieke | 14 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 80 | Marieke | 11 |
22,352 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Marieke van der Polb. 1953NLDutch actress (born 1953)
- Marieke Heebinkb. 1962NLDutch actress (born 1962)
- Marieke Westerhofb. 1974NLDutch rower
- Marieke Vervoortb. 1979BEBelgian athletics competitor (1979–2019)
- Marieke Oeffingerb. 1979DEGerman actress and voice actress
- Marieke Nijkampb. 1986NLDutch author
- Marieke Westenenkb. 1986NLDutch actor and singer
- Marieke Guehrerb. 1986AUAustralian swimmer, former world record holder
- Lucas Rijneveldb. 1991NLnot in their usual nameDutch author
- Marieke Keijserb. 1997NLDutch rower
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 22K | #90 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 16K | #235 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1997 | 355 | #1,977 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 80 | #8,949 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1996 | 56 | #205 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1995 | 55 | #208 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 50 | #228 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 49 | #217 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1998 | 49 | #214 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2007 | 47 | #209 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2006 | 43 | #233 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2001 | 43 | #228 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Marieke?
- In Dutch /maːˈri.kə/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Marieke a male or female name?
- Marieke is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), France (INSEE, 1997) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What are other forms of the name Marieke?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Marja.
- In which country does Marieke have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Marieke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marieke.
- Where is Marieke most common?
- Marieke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 773 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marieke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 22,352 people named Marieke, about 1 in 773 residents.
- How common is Marieke compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Marieke is the 110th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marieke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mariekeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Marieke” — the 110th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.