__NOTOC__ Mertens () is a surname of

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium ...

Origin, meaning "son of Merten" (

Martin Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Aus ...

). It is the fifth most common name in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to ...

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 Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

(frequency 1:2,728), 34.8% of

(1:487), 8.8% of the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ...

(1:60,847), 5.9% of the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

(1:4,188), 1.7% of

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...

(1:57,632) and 1.0% of

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

(1:299,871). In

, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:487) only in one region:

Flemish Region The Flemish Region ( nl, Vlaams Gewest, ),; german: Flämische Region usually simply referred to as Flanders ( nl, link=no, Vlaanderen ) ; german: link=no, Flandern is one of the three regions of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and ...

(1:367). In

, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:2,728) in the following regions: * 1.

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhab ...

(1:970) * 2.

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

(1:1,361) In the

, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:4,188) in the following provinces:.Mertens surname distribution
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Limburg Limburg or Limbourg may refer to: Regions * Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium * Limburg (Netherlands), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands * Diocese of Limburg, Roman Catholic Diocese in ...

(1:959) * 2.

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to th ...

(1:2,002)

Noble House of Mertens de Wilmars

* Charles Mertens de Wilmars (1921–1994), Belgian psychiatrist *

Josse Mertens de Wilmars Baron Joseph (Josse) Marie Honoré Charles Mertens de Wilmars (22 June 1912 – 1 August 2002) was a Belgian jurist who became a member of the European Court of Justice and then its sixth President. Biography Mertens de Wilmars was born in Sin ...

(1912–2002), Belgian jurist

Others

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* Claas Mertens (born 1992), German rower * Conner Mertens (born ca. 1994), American football player

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Dries Mertens Dries Mertens (; born 6 May 1987), nicknamed "Ciro", is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger for Süper Lig club Galatasaray and the Belgium national team.

(born 1987), Belgian footballer * Dylan Mertens (born 1995), Dutch footballer

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Elise Mertens Elise Mertens (; born 17 November 1995) is a Belgian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles. Mertens is a three-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open partnering ...

(born 1995), Belgian tennis player *

Els Mertens Els Mertens (born 14 August 1966) is a former Belgian racing cyclist. She finished in third place in the Belgian National Road Race Championships in 1987 and 1989. References External links * 1966 births Living people Belgian female ...

(born 1966), Belgian racing cyclist * Ewald Mertens (1909–1965), German middle-distance runner

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* Frank Mertens (born 1961), German keyboardist and composer * Franz Mertens (1840–1927), German mathematician **

Mertens conjecture In mathematics, the Mertens conjecture is the statement that the Mertens function M(n) is bounded by \pm\sqrt. Although now disproven, it had been shown to imply the Riemann hypothesis. It was conjectured by Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, in an 188 ...

Mertens function In number theory, the Mertens function is defined for all positive integers ''n'' as : M(n) = \sum_^n \mu(k), where \mu(k) is the Möbius function. The function is named in honour of Franz Mertens. This definition can be extended to positive re ...

Mertens' theorems In number theory, Mertens' theorems are three 1874 results related to the density of prime numbers proved by Franz Mertens.F. Mertens. J. reine angew. Math. 78 (1874), 46–6Ein Beitrag zur analytischen Zahlentheorie/ref> "Mertens' theorem" may a ...

, and

Meissel–Mertens constant The Meissel–Mertens constant (named after Ernst Meissel and Franz Mertens), also referred to as Mertens constant, Kronecker's constant, Hadamard– de la Vallée-Poussin constant or the prime reciprocal constant, is a mathematical constant in ...

Franz Carl Mertens Franz Carl Mertens (3 April 1764 – 19 June 1831) was a German botanist who was a native of Bielefeld. He specialized in the field of phycology. Mertens studied theology and languages at the University of Halle, and after graduation taught ...

(1764–1831), German botanist

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Gregory Mertens Gregory Mertens (2 February 1991 – 30 April 2015) was a Belgian professional football player. His usual position was central defender. He last played for Lokeren. Career Mertens moved from the reserves of K.A.A. Gent to the first team of Cercl ...

(1991–2015), Belgian footballer

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Helmut Mertens Helmut Mertens (also known as "Pitt") (11 November 1917 – 17 January 1984) was a German fighter ace of World War II. He was born in Essen and served in the german: Luftwaffe, label=none as a career fighter pilot who served in the Battle of Fr ...

(1917–1984), German fighter ace

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Jan Mertens the Younger Jan Mertens the Younger (died c. 1527) was a South Netherlandish painter, at the end of the period of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born and died in Antwerp. His father was the sculptor Jan Mertens the Elder, whose family is thought to h ...

(died ca. 1527), South Netherlandish painter * Jan Mertens (1904–1964), Belgian cyclist. * Jan Mertens (1916–2000), Dutch politician * Jan Mertens (born 1995), Belgian footballer *

Jean-François Mertens Jean-François Mertens (11 March 1946 – 17 July 2012) was a Belgian game theorist and mathematical economist. Mertens contributed to economic theory in regards to order-book of market games, cooperative games, noncooperative games, repeated ga ...

(1946–2012), Belgian game theorist known ** Mertens-stable equilibrium, Mertens' voting game *

Jerry Mertens Jerome W. Mertens (born January 5, 1936) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for eight seasons with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). Biography Mertens, a high-school standout ...

(born 1936), American football cornerback *

Jim Mertens Jim Mertens is a former American football wide receiver who was selected in 1969 by the American Football League (AFL)'s Miami Dolphins, and was also selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1969 Major League Baseball Draft. Mertens played one seas ...

(born 1947), American football player * John J. Mertens (1869 – >1924), South Dakota politician * Joseph Mertens (1921–2007), Belgian archaeologist

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Karl Heinrich Mertens Karl Heinrich Mertens (Russian: Андрей Карлович Мертенс, 17 May 1796 – 18 September 1830 Kronstadt), was a German botanist and naturalist, and son of the botanist Franz Carl Mertens. Mertens was aboard the Russian vessel '' ...

(1796–1830), German botanist and naturalist *

Klaus Mertens Klaus Mertens (born 25 March 1949, in Kleve) is a German bass and bass-baritone singer who is known especially for his interpretation of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach for bass voice. Career Klaus Mertens took singing lessons wh ...

(born 1949), German bass singer *

(born 1950), German artist

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Lennart Mertens Lennart Mertens (born 14 August 1992) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a forward for Deinze in the Challenger Pro League. Career In July 2016, Mertens joined Belgian First Amateur Division club Deinze on a free transfer. He made his co ...

(born 1992), Belgian footballer * Linda Mertens (born 1978), Belgian singer *

Lothar Mertens Lothar Mertens (2 January 1959 – 4 December 2006) was a prolific German historian and social sciences scholar. A principal focus of his output was on the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, 1949–1990). Life and work Lothat Mertens wa ...

(1959–2006), German historian

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* Michael Mertens (born 1965), German shot putter

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* Peter Mertens (born 1969), Belgian author and politician *

Pierre Mertens Pierre Mertens (born 9 October 1939) is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the ...

(born 1939), Belgian writer *

Pieter Mertens Pieter Mertens (born 28 August 1980) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. He was professional for four years, spending two years at Chocolade Jacques-T Interim between 2004 and 2005 and then two years at UCI ProTeam Predictor-L ...

(born 1980), Belgian road bicycle racer * Peter Mertens (born 1944) Canadian politician

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* René Mertens (1922–2014), Belgian racing cyclist *

Robert Mertens Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens (1 December 1894 – 23 August 1975) was a German herpetologist. Several taxa of reptiles are named after him.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore ...

(1894–1975), German herpetologist **

Mertens' water monitor Mertens' water monitor (''Varanus mertensi''), also called commonly Mertens's water monitor, and often misspelled Mertin's water monitor, is a species of lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is endemic to northern Australia, and is a wide ...

** Robert Mertens's day gecko

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Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen (29 January 1797 – 22 October 1857) was a German art collector and musician who became significant due in part to interest in archaeology. She hosted a salon of importance. She became notable for knowledge of gems a ...

(1797–1857), German art collector and musician * Stéphane Mertens (born 1959), Belgian motorcycle road racer

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* Tim Mertens (born 1986), Belgian racing cyclist

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Wim Mertens Wim Mertens (; born 14 May 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist. Life and work Mertens was born in Neerpelt, Belgium. He studied social and political science at the University of Leu ...

(born 1953), Belgian musician

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* Yannick Mertens (born 1987), Belgian tennis player

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Zenia Mertens Zenia Mertens (born 27 February 2001) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for OH Leuven and the Belgium national team. International career Mertens made her debut for the Belgium national team on 10 June 2021, coming ...

(born 2001), Belgian footballer

Fictional characters

Finn Mertens Finn Mertens, also known as Finn the Human, is a fictional character and one of the two protagonists in the American animated television series '' Adventure Time'' created by Pendleton Ward. He also appeared in the spin-off series '' Adventu ...

, main protagonist of the American animated television series ''

Adventure Time ''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn ( Jeremy Shada) and ...

'' *Mertens, the protagonist of the 1998 PlayStation video game '' Colony Wars: Vengeance''

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Geographical distribution

Noble House of Mertens de Wilmars

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