Marti

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Martin in US United States, FR France, NO Norway and 6 more and Martinus in NL Netherlands, AT Austria, BR Brazil and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Marti is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname142K records spelled Marti13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Spain, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Márti, Mãrtï, Màrtì, Märtį, Martì

• a separate surname13K records spelled Marti4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Switzerland, India

  Also written Martí, Martì, Marți

• Indonesian surname5.1K records spelled Marti3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Indonesia, Switzerland

  Also written Martí, Marti'

75 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Marti 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.

• topographic name from mart ‘small hill’, ‘waterfront’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• from Marti, a pet form of the personal name Marion, Hungarian form of Martin.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In German, Meist alemannische Kurzform aus Martinus; vereinzelt auch Kurzform von patronymischem Marting.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

• statue; idol. embodiment; incarnation.

  as a name·The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

• from a pet form of Martin

  as a name·Dictionary 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 88 years between 1936–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Kurt Martib. 1921CHSwiss theologian and poet (1921-2017)
• Anton Martib. 1923HRCroatian TV director (1923–2004)
• Pascal Martib. 1950FRFrench cinematographer
• Rudolf Martib. 1950CHbobsledder
• Christoph Martib. 1965CHSwiss actor (born 1965)
• Denis Martib. 1972ITItalian pornographic actor & director
• Beat Martib. 1972CHSwiss actor
• Amaury Cazanab. 1976CUnot in their usual nameCuban baseball player
• Christian Martib. 1993CHSwiss ice hockey defenceman
• Lara Martib. 1999CHSwiss association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 516 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marti?

We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Marti (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Marti have the most bearers?

We estimate about 377 thousand people bear Marti in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.

Where is Marti most common?

Marti is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 28 people carrying it.

How common is Marti compared with other names?

In the Netherlands, Marti is the 26th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.

What does the name Marti mean?

Recorded meaning: 2. Italian: probably from medieval Greek Martios ‘March’, a nickname for someone who was bom or baptized in March or had some other association with the month.