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The MAERTENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 486 42056 0 2
United States (1880 census) 15 79636 0 0
Change since 1880 +471 +37580 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 5 146609 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MAERTENS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 107 7118 0.002 22
Michigan 56 22502 0.001 6
Illinois 42 31142 0.000 3
California 33 62896 0.000 1
New Jersey 26 38126 0.000 3
Top States for MAERTENS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 18 6614 0.003 28
Minnesota 107 7118 0.002 22
Hawaii 20 5743 0.002 17
Wyoming 7 10442 0.001 14
Iowa 24 18058 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MAERTENS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MAERTENS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MAERTENS in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MAERTENS by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MAERTENS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MAERTENS surname.

Ethnic distribution of MAERTENS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 444 91.36
White (Hispanic) 23 4.73
Mixed Race 12 2.47
Asian/Pacific 7 1.44
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MAERTENS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

MAERTENS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MAERTENS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MAERTENS.

Similar names to MAERTENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAERTENS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MAERTENS

The following words are slight variants of MAERTENS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.