Märtįn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Märtįn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In France it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).
- ESSpain1 in 105(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 473
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Märtįn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- 1 in 105 (inferred from the name graph)
702,625 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Martin in FR France, US United States, ES Spain and 2 more.
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)From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).
Cited for this meaning 16
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Russian Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Märtįn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 702,625 | 1 in 473 | 703K | Martin | 409 |
| ES Spain | — | 475,139 | 1 in 105 | 475K | Martin | 132 |
| AR Argentina | — | 54,693 | 1 in 832 | 55K | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | #9 | 9,008 | 1 in 1.3K | 9K | Martin | 119 |
| CH Switzerland | #309 | 7,191 | 1 in 1.2K | 7.2K | Martin | 103 |
| FR France | #1 | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 72K | Martin | 430 |
702,625 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Märtįn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 14 other sources.
- Is Märtįn a male or female name?
- Märtįn is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Märtįn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 703 thousand people named Märtįn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled martin.
- Where is Märtįn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Märtįn is densest in Spain — about 1 in 105 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Märtįn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 702,625 people named Märtįn in 2010, about 1 in 473 residents.
- How common is Märtįn compared with other names?
- In France, Märtįn is the most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4rt%C4%AFnThe 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, “Märtįn” — the most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.