Mårtensson

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic

/mo:t`enson/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mårtensson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 922(measured from records)
  • BJBenin≈1 in 4K
  • DKDenmark1 in 19K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

11,071 people

Sources
83 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 922 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Martensson in BJ Benin.

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)

a surname originating as a patronymic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mårtensson 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 Mårtensson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#6411,0711 in 92211KMårtensson80
BJ Benin#308≈3,200 est.≈1 in 4K—Martensson3
DK Denmark—3171 in 19K317Mårtensson22
FI Finland—2561 in 22K256Mårtensson4
NO Norway—1961 in 28K196Mårtensson8

11,071 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Mårtensson is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Martensson, Märtensson, Maertensson

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Martensson, Mártensson, M̊artensson, Märtensson, Mârtensson

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Martensson

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Martensson

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, France, Benin

    Also written Martensson, Mârtensson, Märtensson

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Türkiye

    Also written Martensson

23 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Frithiof Mårtensson, b. 1884Anders Mårtensson, b. 1893Gunnar Mårtenson, b. 1907Iris Mårtensson, b. 1932Bertil Mårtensson, b. 1945Bodil Mårtensson, b. 1952Agneta Mårtensson, b. 1961Per Mårtensson, b. 1967Tony Mårtensson, b. 1980Johan Mårtensson, b. 1989

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalHej ,Dear Mårtensson, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Mårtensson
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—11K#65
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—317#1,464
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—256#6,102
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—196#8,093
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—102—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mårtensson mean, and where does it come from?
a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Mårtensson?
A machine transcription gives /mo:t`enson/ (IPA) for Swedish.
In which country does Mårtensson have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Mårtensson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mårtensson.
Where is Mårtensson most common?
Mårtensson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 922 people carrying it.
How common is the name Mårtensson?
In Sweden, the national register counted 11,071 people named Mårtensson, about 1 in 922 residents.
How common is Mårtensson compared with other names?
In Sweden, Mårtensson is the 64th most common surname of 187,334 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, “Mårtensson” — the 64th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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