Mertins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic surname from Martin; variant with e-vowel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɝtɪnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mertins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 173K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 212K
- BRBrazil1 in 249K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mertins itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 173K (inferred from the name graph)
849 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Мертинс in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
Patronymic surname from Martin; variant with e-vowel. Bearer count: 2335.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mertins 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 | 849 | 1 in 249K | 849 | — | — |
| US United States | 378 | 1 in 880K | 549 | Mertins | 4 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Мертинс | 26 |
| RU Russia | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Мертинс | 54 |
| PL Poland | 44 | 1 in 870K | 25 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 34 | 1 in 173K | 34 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 16 | 1 in 212K | 16 | — | — |
849 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Mertins is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Martin; Beleg für a/ä/e-Vokalvariation. Bearerzahl: 1120.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Kurzform/Patronym zu Martinus; demonstriert a/e/ä/ae und i-Vokalvariation in Kurzformen mit -l-Diminutivsuffix. 8 Typen/2335 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
patronymic from a variant of 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)
- Oskar Mertinsb. 1858DEGerman archaeologist and prehistorian (1858-1909)
- Ferdinand Mertinsb. 1864LTpolitician
- Arthur Mertinsb. 1898DEGerman politician (1898-1979)
- Gerhard Mertinsb. 1919DEGerman arms trafficker and WWII Fallschirmjager
- Günter Mertinsb. 1936DEGerman geographer (1936–2015)
- Detlef Mertinsb. 1954USborn:1954-10-14|died:2011|; Mertins, Detlef, 1954-....; Mertins, Detlef, 1954-2011 (1954-2011)
- Oliver Mertinsb. 1964DEGerman author, translator and writer
- Omar MertinsBRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-5028-9215
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 849 | #10,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 549 | #42,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 510 | #40,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 378 | #54,530 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 34 | #14,851 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #78,684 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #92,976 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 16 | — |
| 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
- 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
- Where does the name Mertins come from?
- Patronymic surname from Martin; variant with e-vowel. Bearer count: 2335. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Mertins?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɝtɪnz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mertins mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymic surname from Martin; variant with e-vowel.
- In which country does Mertins have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 849 people named Mertins, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mertins most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mertins is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 173 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mertins?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 849 people named Mertins, about 1 in 249 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mertinsThe 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, “Mertins”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.