Martensson
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Martensson 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.
- 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)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 922 (inferred from the name graph)
11,071 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mårtensson in SE Sweden, DK Denmark, FI Finland 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Martensson 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.
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frithiof Mårtenssonb. 1884SEOlympic wrestler (1884–1956)
- Anders Mårtenssonb. 1893SESwedish equestrian
- Gunnar Mårtensonb. 1907FInot in their usual nameFinnish journalist (1907-1975)
- Iris Mårtenssonb. 1932SESwedish politician
- Bertil Mårtenssonb. 1945SESwedish writer (1945–2018)
- Bodil Mårtenssonb. 1952SESwedish writer
- Agneta Mårtenssonb. 1961SEswimmer
- Magnus Martenssonb. 1966USAmerican musician
- Per Mårtenssonb. 1967SESwedish composer and teacher
- Johan Mårtenssonb. 1989SESwedish footballer
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Martensson have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Martensson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mårtensson.
- Where is Martensson most common?
- Martensson is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 922 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Martensson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 11,071 people named Martensson, about 1 in 922 residents.
- How common is Martensson compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Martensson is the 64th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Martensson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/martenssonThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Martensson” — the 64th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.