Martinec
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Slovenian and Croatian (northern and eastern Croatia); diminutive or patronymic from the personal name Martin (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/marcɪnɛts/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Martinec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 1,855 people, counted by MVČR.
- CZCzechia1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 6.6K
- SKSlovakia1 in 9.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,855 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Martinec
- Czech:/marcɪnɛts/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Slovenian and Croatian (northern and eastern Croatia); diminutive or patronymic from the personal name Martin.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Martinec is found
(measured from records)Martinec 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 1,855 | 1 in 5.8K | 1.9K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 643 | 1 in 6.6K | 643 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 591 | 1 in 9.2K | 591 | — | — |
| US United States | 491 | 1 in 677K | 491 | Martinec | 18 |
| SI Slovenia | 151 | 1 in 14K | 151 | — | 2 |
1,855 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Martinec 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.
Czech and Slovak; derivative of the personal name Martin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Vladimír Martinecb. 1949CZCzech ice hockey player and coach
- Emil Martinecb. 1958USAmerican physicist (1958–)
- Tomáš Martinecb. 1976CZCzech-German ice hockey player, born 1976
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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Martinec mean, and where does it come from?
- Slovenian and Croatian (northern and eastern Croatia); diminutive or patronymic from the personal name Martin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Martinec?
- In Czech /marcɪnɛts/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Martinec?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Martinec, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Croatia, Slovakia, United States and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Martinec most common?
- Martinec is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Martinec?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,855 people named Martinec, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/martinecThe 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, “Martinec” — ranked 657th in Czechia (MVČR). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.