Martinec
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Slovenian and Croatian (northern and eastern Croatia); diminutive or patronymic from the personal name Martin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɑɹtɪnɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Martinec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 6.6K
- SKSlovakia1 in 9.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,855 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Slovenian and Croatian (northern and eastern Croatia); diminutive or patronymic from the personal name Martin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(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)
- Emil Martinecb. 1869CZCzech civil servant (1869–1945)
- Vladimír Martinecb. 1949CZCzech ice hockey player and coach
- Mira Martinecb. 1956HRCroatian diplomat, ambassador
- Emil Martinecb. 1958USAmerican physicist (1958–)
- Patrik Martinecb. 1971CZCzech ice hockey player and coach
- Tomáš Martinecb. 1976CZCzech-German ice hockey player, born 1976
- Jakub Martinecb. 1979CZCzech musician
- Hynek Martinecb. 1980CZCzech painter
- Boris Martinecb. 1988HRCroatian figure skater
- Antonie Formanováb. 1998CZnot in their usual nameCzech actress
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.9K | #657 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.8K | #658 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.8K | #657 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 643 | #1,021 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 591 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 575 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 491 | #43,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 479 | #47,689 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 450 | #44,895 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 151 | #2,954 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑɹtɪnɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Martinec have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Martinec, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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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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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.