Maartens is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Maartens
No. of characters: 8
Origin: Germany
Meaning:

Lastname is variant of Marton. The name of many parishes, townships, manors, etc., in the northern counties, from the Anglo-Saxon mere, a lake or pool, and tĂșn, an enclosure or homestead. Family bearing the name were the Martons of Capernwray, county of Lancaster, who claim lineal descent from Paganus de Marton, the Norman lord of E. and W.Marton in Craven, soon after the Conquest.

Maartens is variation of the Martins. See Martin - From the personal name, rendered illustrious by St. Martin, the apostol of the Gauls. Many places in Normandy were dedicated to him, and from one of these sprang the great family who came hither at the Conquest under the name of De Sancto Martino. Both as a personal designation, and a surname, it is very widely spread in all the countries of western Europe. At Paris it is amongst the very commonest of all family names, answering to our own Smith for frequency. Its derivatives are Martins and Martinson. Martineau is well naturalized here, and Martinelli, Martinez, Martini, and other foreign forms are becoming so. The name of the Saint was perhaps derived from the Latin martius, warlike.

The family name Maartens is variation of Marten. The Martens of Sussex are stated to have come from the "province of Aquitaine, in France, and lived there Anno 1386." Kent's Grammar of Heraldry, 1716.

Maartens is form of Martinet. Descendant of little Martin, i.e., belonging to Mars, the god of war.

The family name is the variant form of Marti. Descendant of Marti, i.e., belonging to Mars; descendant of Marti meaning "Tuesday," a name sometimes given to one born on Tuesday.

Maartens is the variant form of Martinez. The son of Martin, i.e., belonging to Mars, the god of war.

Is the variant of Marzullo. Descendant of Marzullo, name sometimes given to one born in March.

Maartens is the variant of Lamartine. Of the martin or swallow.

Surname Maartens is the variation of Matin. Probably corruption of Martin.

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