Entry № 6498 · Dutch origin

Marieke Marieke — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-REE-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Dutch
Meaning
"Beloved, bitter; Mary"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Dutch)

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

Marieke is the Dutch diminutive of Maria — from the Hebrew Miriam.

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (born 1991), the Dutch author of The Discomfort of Evening (International Booker Prize 2020), is a contemporary bearer.

Beloved. Brel's song. The Dutch Mary.

The name in its native script.

Marieke
Transliteration
Marieke
Pronunciation
/ məˈriː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marieke stands.

Marieke 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.

Mariekes before her.

Real people
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Dutch author.
born 1991
In fiction
Marieke
Subject of Brel's 1961 song.
1961 song

Names connected to Marieke.

The number behind Marieke.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marieke reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.