Martinho
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Portuguese; derivative of Martin or of any of its Portuguese variants, Martins and Martim
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Martinho is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 26K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 928K
- ESSpain1 in 1M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
8,016 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Portuguese; derivative of Martin or of any of its Portuguese variants, Martins and Martim.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Martinho 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 8,016 | 1 in 26K | 9.8K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 49 | 1 in 1M | 126 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 12 | 1 in 1.4M | 12 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 143 | Martinho | 182 |
8,016 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Martinho 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.
In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Martin
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)
- Sancho I of Portugalb. 1154PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1185–1211)
- Martinho de Zamorab. 1350EScardinal
- Martinho Prado Júniorb. 1843BRBrazilian politician
- Martinho Rodriguesb. 1848BRBrazilian writer
- Martinho Garcezb. 1850BRBrazilian journalist, lawyer and politician
- Martinho Oliveirab. 1898PTfootballer
- Martinho de Harob. 1907BRBrazilian painter (1907-1985)
- Martinho da Vilab. 1938BRBrazilian musician
- Martinho Lutero Galati de Oliveirab. 1953BRBrazilian conductor (1953-2020)
- Martinho Ndafa Kabib. 1957GWPrime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
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 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.9K | #1,331 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 207 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 167 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 143 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 126 | #23,315 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 126 | #23,292 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 8 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #46,863 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Martinho mean, and where does it come from?
- Portuguese; derivative of Martin or of any of its Portuguese variants, Martins and Martim. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Martinho a male or female name?
- Martinho is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Martinho?
- In the etymology graph, Marty, Marcin and Tin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Martinho have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Martinho, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Martinho most common?
- Martinho is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Martinho?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,016 people named Martinho in 2022, about 1 in 26 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/martinhoThe 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, “Martinho”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.