Mertens () is a surname of Flanders origin, meaning "son of Merten" (Martin). It is the fifth most common name in Belgium with 18,518 people in 2008.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 43.4% of all known bearers of the surname
Mertens were residents of
Germany (frequency 1:2,728), 34.8% of
Belgium (1:487), 8.8% of the
United States (1:60,847), 5.9% of the
Netherlands (1:4,188), 1.7% of
France (1:57,632) and 1.0% of
Brazil (1:299,871).
In Belgium, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:487) only in one region: Flemish Region (1:367).
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:2,728) in the following regions:
In the Netherlands, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:4,188) in the following provinces:.[ Mertens surname distribution]
Noble House of Mertens de Wilmars
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Charles Mertens de Wilmars (1921–1994), Belgian psychiatrist
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Josse Mertens de Wilmars (1912–2002), Belgian jurist
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Frank Mertens (born 1961), German keyboardist and composer
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Franz Mertens (1840–1927), German mathematician
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Mertens conjecture, Mertens function, Mertens' theorems, and Meissel–Mertens constant
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Franz Carl Mertens (1764–1831), German botanist
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Jan Mertens the Younger (died ca. 1527), South Netherlandish painter
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Jan Mertens (1904–1964), Belgian cyclist.
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Jan Mertens (1916–2000), Dutch politician
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Jan Mertens (born 1995), Belgian footballer
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Jean-François Mertens (1946–2012), Belgian game theorist known
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Mertens-stable equilibrium, Mertens' voting game
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Jerry Mertens (born 1936), American football cornerback
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Jim Mertens (born 1947), American football player
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John J. Mertens (1869 – >1924), South Dakota politician
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Joseph Mertens (1921–2007), Belgian archaeologist
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Karl Heinrich Mertens (1796–1830), German botanist and naturalist
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Klaus Mertens (born 1949), German bass singer
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Klaus Mertens (born 1950), German artist
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Peter Mertens (born 1969), Belgian author and politician
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Pierre Mertens (1939–2025), Belgian-French writer and lawyer
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Pieter Mertens (born 1980), Belgian road bicycle racer
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Peter Mertens (born 1944) Canadian politician
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René Mertens (1922–2014), Belgian racing cyclist
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Robert Mertens (1894–1975), German herpetologist
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Mertens' water monitor
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Robert Mertens's day gecko
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Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen (1797–1857), German art collector and musician
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Stéphane Mertens (born 1959), Belgian motorcycle road racer
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W. Mertens ( fl. 1650–1675), Flemish still life painter
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Wim Mertens (born 1953), Belgian musician
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Fictional characters
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Finn Mertens, main protagonist of the American animated television series Adventure Time
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Martin Mertens, a character who is Finn's Father in the American animated television series Adventure Time
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Mertens, the protagonist of the 1998 PlayStation video game
See also
