Martinez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Spanish Martínez, meaning ‘son of Martin’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/martinɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Martinez 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.
- 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)
- #22 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 600 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23 (inferred from the name graph)
1,060,159 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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, meaning ‘son of Martin’
Sources 1
- 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)
Martinez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #10 | 1,060,159 | 1 in 314 | 1.1M | Martinez | 600 |
| ES Spain | #3 | 832,396 | 1 in 60 | 832K | Martinez | 312 |
| CO Colombia | #5 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 93 | 7.5K | Martinez | 239 |
| AR Argentina | #7 | 467,014 | 1 in 97 | 467K | Martinez | 201 |
| VE Venezuela | #6 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 75 | 3.2K | Martinez | 144 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #223 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | — | Martínez | 125 |
| SV El Salvador | #2 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 35 | — | Martinez | 114 |
| PY Paraguay | #3 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 49 | — | Martinez | 95 |
| UY Uruguay | #142 | 146,797 | 1 in 23 | 147K | Martínez | 143 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Martinez is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Spanish (Martinez); patronymic from the personal name Martin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A patrilineal surname from Spanish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, de Martino com sufixo espanhol -ez; indica filiação
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, city; CA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Iloko, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Martínez, generally concentrated around Ilocos Sur and La Union provinces
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Luis Aragonésb. 1938ESnot in their usual nameSpanish football player and manager (1938–2014)
- Leo XIVb. 1955USnot in their usual name267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)
- Laura Harringb. 1964MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and Miss USA 1985
- Paco Tousb. 1964ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Yamandú Orsib. 1967UYnot in their usual name43rd President of Uruguay
- Roberto Martínezb. 1973ESSpanish association football coach
- Itziar Ituñob. 1974ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Damián Emiliano Martínezb. 1992ARArgentine footballer (born 1992)
- Ángel Correab. 1995ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player
- Lautaro Martínezb. 1997ARArgentine association football player (born 1997)
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 67 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1M | #10 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1M | #10 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 832K | #6 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 832K | #6 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 775K | #11 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 467K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 147K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 321 | #4 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Martinez mean, and where does it come from?
- from Spanish Martínez, meaning ‘son of Martin’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Martinez?
- A machine transcription gives /martinɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Martinez have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Martinez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled martinez.
- Where is Martinez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Martinez 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 Martinez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,060,159 people named Martinez in 2010, about 1 in 314 residents.
- How common is Martinez compared with other names?
- In the United States, Martinez is the 10th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Martinez?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/martinezThe 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, “Martinez” — the 10th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.