Entry № 6135 · Dutch origin

Maaike Maaike — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MY-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Dutch
Meaning
"Beloved, bitter; Mary"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Dutch)

A name that means "beloved, bitter; mary".

Maaike is the Dutch diminutive of Maria — from the Hebrew Miriam. Used widely across the Netherlands and Flanders.

Maaike Ouboter is a Dutch singer-songwriter.

The Dutch Mary. Six letters.

The name in its native script.

Maaike
Transliteration
Maaike
Pronunciation
/ ˈmaɪ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maaike stands.

Maaike does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Maaikes before her.

Real people
Maaike Ouboter
Dutch singer-songwriter.
born 1993
In fiction
Maaike
Common in Dutch fiction.

Names connected to Maaike.

The number behind Maaike.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maaike reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.