Martim

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Martim is a given name, most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is the 95th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Martin, from Latin Martīnus.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal1 in 617
  • BRBrazil1 in 69K
  • ISIceland1 in 70K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.2K

across 9 countries

Sources
100

11K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 69K

Brazil

Meaning & origin

Derivation of Martim: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Martim
  1. Old Galician-PortugueseMartin
  2. LatinMartīnus

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Martin, from Latin Martīnus.

Sources 1

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Martim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PT Portugal#9513,6162.6K rec.1KMartim100
BR Brazil3,0907.1K rec.1 in 69K3.1KMartim97
US United States160218 rec.listedMartim52
MX Mexico119145 rec.Martim15
AR Argentina88245 rec.39Martim21
ES Spain58132 rec.1 in 862K58Martim20
GB United Kingdom4928 rec.listedMartim23
UY Uruguay4947 rec.Martim5
CH Switzerland3329 rec.Martim17
PE Peru2932 rec.Martim7
CL Chile1719 rec.1Martim7
CO Colombia1730 rec.Martim6

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Portuguese66K90%
  • English4.9K7%
  • French7361%
  • Spanish5031%
  • German1331%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese66,34590%
English4,8987%
French7361%
Spanish5031%
German1331%

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

Over time

01K2K3K4K19401960198020002020

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Martim in IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), Brazil, 1930–2022
Yearrecords
193010
194086
1950292
1960673
19701,051
19801,335
19901,555
20001,695
20101,835
20202,383
20223,090

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

120014001600180020002200Martim Afonso Chichorro, b. 1250Martim Anes de Soverosa, b. 1250Martim Afonso Chichorro II, b. 1295Martim Afonso de Sousa, b. 1500Martim Afonso de Castro, b. 1560Martim Soares Moreno, b. 1586Martim Mércio da Silveira, b. 1911Martim Francisco, b. 1928Martim Costa, b. 2002

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

Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Martim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)9K#1,425
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)3.1K#4,543
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.1K
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)3.1K#1,732
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)3.1K#3,810
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20202.4K
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20101.8K
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20001.7K
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19901.6K
PT PortugalIRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023)20171.3K#6
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19801.3K
PT PortugalIRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023)20181.3K#8

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 99 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Martim?
We estimate roughly 3.2 thousand people bear Martim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Martim have the most bearers?
Martim is most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is most often spelled martim.
How common is Martim compared with other names?
In Portugal, Martim is the 95th most common given name of 19,429 given names recorded there.
Is Martim a male or female name?
Martim 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 does the name Martim mean?
Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Martin, from Latin Martīnus.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Martim” — the 95th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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