Mårtins
surname · Latin script
Mårtins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Martĩiz. By surface analysis, Martim + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Martínez.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 77(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 179
- UYUruguay1 in 887
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #371 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Martins in BR Brazil, PT Portugal, US United States and 5 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)
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Martĩiz. By surface analysis, Martim + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Martínez.
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mårtins 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #23 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 179 | 7.2K | Martins | 257 |
| PT Portugal | #12 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 77 | listed | Martins | 245 |
| NG Nigeria | #920 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Martins | 86 |
| AO Angola | #17 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 992 | — | Martins | 57 |
| FR France | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 3.3K | Martins | 4 |
| US United States | — | 11,751 | 1 in 28K | 13K | Martins | 376 |
| CH Switzerland | #77 | 6,559 | 1 in 1.3K | 6.6K | Martins | 94 |
| UY Uruguay | #155 | 3,819 | 1 in 887 | 3.8K | Martins | 46 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Mårtins mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Martĩiz. By surface analysis, Martim + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Martínez. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Mårtins have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 million people named Mårtins in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled martins.
- How common is the name Mårtins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,751 people named Mårtins in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Mårtins compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mårtins is the 23rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A5rtinsThe 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, “Mårtins” — the 23rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.