Mârtô

surname · Latin script

Mârtô is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Spanish; 1. habitational name from a place called Marto in Andalusia. 2. probably also a masculine variant from Marta.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 272K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 665K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K

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.

United States (measured from records)

330 people, 2010

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 272K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Marto in US United States, DZ Algeria, ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Spanish; 1. habitational name from a place called Marto in Andalusia. 2. probably also a masculine variant from Marta.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mârtô 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.

Where Mârtô is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3301 in 1M346Marto5
AR Argentina1671 in 272K167——
ES Spain381 in 1.3M38Marto2
DZ Algeria≈26 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Marto3
NL Netherlands261 in 665K26——
BE Belgium121 in 977K12——
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9—1

330 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mârtô is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Marto, Märtö, Mårťo, Mârto, Màrtô

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mârtô under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mârtô mean, and where does it come from?
Spanish; 1. habitational name from a place called Marto in Andalusia. 2. probably also a masculine variant from Marta. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Mârtô have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 330 people named Mârtô, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marto.
Where is Mârtô most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mârtô is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 272 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mârtô?
In the United States, the national register counted 330 people named Mârtô in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

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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, “Mârtô”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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