Martèl
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Martèl is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English martel, from Old French martel (modern French marteau), from Late Latin martellus, from Latin martulus, a variant of marculus (“small hammer”).
- ESSpain1 in 10K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 18K
- UYUruguay1 in 24K
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 Martèl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
9,056 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Martel in US United States, CA Canada, ES Spain and 1 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)- Middle Englishmartel(measured from records)
- Old Frenchmartelmodern French marteau(measured from records)
- Late Latinmartellus(measured from records)
- Latinmartulus(measured from records)
From Middle English martel, from Old French martel (modern French marteau), from Late Latin martellus, from Latin martulus, a variant of marculus (“small hammer”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Martèl is found
(measured from records)Martèl 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.
9,056 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Martèl 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.
In egl, hammer
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)- Philippe Martelb. 1951FRFrench historian
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Martèl mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English martel, from Old French martel (modern French marteau), from Late Latin martellus, from Latin martulus, a variant of marculus (“small hammer”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- Is Martèl a male or female name?
- Martèl 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Martèl?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Martèl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled martel. After it come Spain, Argentina, Brazil and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Martèl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Martèl is densest in Spain — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Martèl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,056 people named Martèl in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Martèl compared with other names?
- In Canada, Martèl is the 712th most common surname of 699,524 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Martèl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mart%C3%A8lThe 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, “Martèl” — the 712th most common surname in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.