Martìnez

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Martìnez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Martínez, from Martín+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 23(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 35
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 49

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)

1,060,159 people, 2010

#22 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
600 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 23 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MartìnezLatin(measured from records)
МартинесCyrillic(measured from records)
มาร์ติเนซThai(measured from records)
ΜαρτίνεζGreek(measured from records)
마르티네스Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Martinez in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 4 more and Martínez in UY Uruguay, DO Dominican Republic.

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 Spanish Martínez, from Martín+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

Sources 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Martìnez 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 Martìnez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#101,060,1591 in 3141.1MMartinez600
ES Spain#3832,3961 in 60832KMartinez312
CO Colombia#5≈530,000 est.≈1 in 937.5KMartinez239
AR Argentina#7467,0141 in 97467KMartinez201
VE Venezuela#6≈380,000 est.≈1 in 753.2KMartinez144
DO Dominican Republic#223≈190,000 est.≈1 in 56—Martínez125
SV El Salvador#2≈180,000 est.≈1 in 35—Martinez114
PY Paraguay#3≈150,000 est.≈1 in 49—Martinez95
UY Uruguay#142146,7971 in 23147KMartínez143

1,060,159 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Martìnez is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name24 spellings in the group

    Also written Martin-Ez, Mart-Inez, Mart́inez, Martine-Z, Martĩnez

  • French surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Martinez, Martínez, Martinez', Martinéz, Mártinez

  • Amharic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, Canada

    Also written Martinez, Martínez

7 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Martìnez,Dear Martìnez, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Martìnez,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Martìnez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—12—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—1#115

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Martìnez mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Martínez, from Martín+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 4 other sources.
In which country does Martìnez have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Martìnez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled martinez.
Where is Martìnez most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Martìnez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 23 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Martìnez?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,060,159 people named Martìnez in 2010, about 1 in 314 residents.
How common is Martìnez compared with other names?
In the United States, Martìnez is the 10th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Martìnez” — the 10th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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