Marte
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably from medieval Greek Martios ‘March’ or the Calabrian dialect word marti ‘Tuesday’, in either case probably denoting someone with some particular association with the month or the day (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 33 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈmaɾ.t̪e/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Marte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 5.8Kfew records
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 171 (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Marte
- Spanish:/ˈmaɾ.t̪e/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)probably from medieval Greek Martios ‘March’ or the Calabrian dialect word marti ‘Tuesday’, in either case probably denoting someone with some particular association with the month or the day.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Marte is found
(measured from records)Marte counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #22 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 171 | — | Marte | 96 |
| US United States | — | 8,867 | 1 in 38K | 10K | Marte | 262 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Marte | 34 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,860 | 1 in 27K | 1.9K | Marte | 79 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 5 | Marte | 49 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Marte | 25 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #271 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Marte | 19 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Marte is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Mars (Roman god of war)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, del latín Mars, deidad itálica identificada con el dios griego de la guerra
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In German, Variante im Martel-Mertel-Mörtl-Komplex; wohl Herkunftsname zu Siedlungsnamen Marth/Marthe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
4. German: from a short form of Martin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Norwegian, a female given name, variant of Marta or Margareta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Andy Marteb. 1983DODominican baseball player (1983-2017)
- Judy Marteb. 1983USAmerican actress
- Starling Marteb. 1988DObaseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)66 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marte mean, and where does it come from?
- probably from medieval Greek Martios ‘March’ or the Calabrian dialect word marti ‘Tuesday’, in either case probably denoting someone with some particular association with the month or the day. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marte?
- In Spanish /ˈmaɾ.t̪e/ (Wiktionary).
- What are other forms of the name Marte?
- In the etymology graph, Morta and Maata are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Marte?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Marte in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marte. After it come United States, Philippines, Spain and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Marte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,867 people named Marte in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Marte compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Marte is the 22nd most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marte” — the 22nd most common surname in the Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.