Gilmartin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhartain, literally ‘son of the servant of (St) Martin’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɪɫˈmɑɹtɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gilmartin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 82K
- USUnited States1 in 116K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 314 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhartain, literally ‘son of the servant of (St) Martin’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gilmartin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Gilmartin | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,872 | 1 in 116K | 3K | Gilmartin | 314 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Gilmartin | 145 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Gilmartin | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Gilmartin | 4 |
| IE Ireland | #840 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gilmartin | 66 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Gilmartin | 37 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Gilmartin | 55 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Gilmartin | 1 |
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 2000; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)
Gilmartin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhartain, a patronymic from the personal name Giolla Gilstrap Mhartain ‘servant of (Saint) Martin’ (see Martin).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Thomas Gilmartinb. 1861IEIrish archbishop (1861–1939)
- Tom Gilmartinb. 1924USAmerican politician (1924–2012)
- Tom Gilmartinb. 1935IEbusinessman (1935-2013)
- Brian G. Gilmartinb. 1940USAmerican social psychologist (1940–2016)
- Raymond Gilmartinb. 1941USAmerican businessman
- Lynn Gilmartinb. 1984IEAustralian-Irish actress and television presenter
- Mike Gilmartinb. 1986USAmerican football player
- Rene Gilmartinb. 1987IEIrish footballer
- Sean Gilmartinb. 1990USAmerican baseball player (born 1990)
- Charlotte Gilmartinb. 1990GBBritish short track speed skater
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,064 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gilmartin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhartain, literally ‘son of the servant of (St) Martin’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gilmartin?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɪɫˈmɑɹtɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gilmartin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Gilmartin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilmartin.
- How common is the name Gilmartin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,872 people named Gilmartin in 2010, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
- How common is Gilmartin compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Gilmartin is the 840th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilmartinThe 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, “Gilmartin” — the 840th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.