Martinez

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Martinez is a surname, most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Spanish Martínez, meaning ‘son of Martin’.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 32◐
  • MXMexico1 in 40
  • HNHonduras1 in 42

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

≈2.8M ●

across 11 countries

#35 ●

of 21M surnames

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
533 ●

23M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 60 ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

MartinezLatin · Spanish●23M records
МартинесCyrillic · Russian●1.5K records
มาร์ติเนซThai · Thai●36 records
ΜαρτίνεζGreek · Greek●4 records
마르티네스Hangul · Korean●1 records

Locally spelled Martínez in CL Chile, DO Dominican Republic, UY Uruguay.

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●

from Spanish Martínez, meaning ‘son of Martin’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Martinez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#39,248,8617.8M rec.—62KMartinez319
SV El Salvador#21,239,161684K rec.——Martinez108
VE Venezuela#71,119,5281.1M rec.—3.2KMartinez136
US United States#101,060,1596.4M rec.1 in 3141.1MMartinez533
ES Spain#6832,3961.4M rec.1 in 60832KMartinez286
CO Colombia#5745,988323K rec.—7.5KMartinez224
AR Argentina#8467,0142M rec.1 in 97467KMartinez190
PY Paraguay#3452,380248K rec.——Martinez80
HN Honduras#3352,961349K rec.——Martinez111
PE Peru#42244,654648K rec.1 in 130245KMartinez138
PH Philippines#54150,222269K rec.——Martinez141
GB United Kingdom#159101,140132K rec.——Martinez168

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

Languages●

  • Spanish23M69%
  • English5.2M15%
  • 1.2M4%
  • Catalan833K2%
  • French375K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish23,244,31769%
English5,187,02515%
1,190,2394%
Catalan832,6932%
French375,2561%

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◐

Martinez is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan surname1.2M records spelled Martinez14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Martínez, Martìnez, Martinez', Martine'Z, Mártinez

  • a separate surname1.2M records spelled Martinez24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Martínez, Martin-Ez, Martine-Z, Marti-Nez, Mart-Inez

85 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●

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.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K1900195020001.8K · 1995

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Martinez in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2024
Yearrecords
19007
190111
190217
190326
190425
190528
190634
190749
190842
190957
191054
191149
191261
191361
191481
191578
191692
191785
1918102
191990
192090
1921104
1922124
1923117
1924132
1925153
1926137
1927143
1928175
1929194
1930191
1931176
1932201
1933204
1934209
1935207
1936225
1937241
1938247
1939255
1940273
1941257
1942256
1943319
1944328
1945339
1946359
1947402
1948387
1949367
1950403
1951414
1952430
1953457
1954496
1955506
1956534
1957530
1958550
1959582
1960596
1961630
1962673
1963690
1964748
1965938
19661,104
1967779
1968778
1969792
1970796
1971851
1972833
1973819
1974868
1975892
19761,001
19771,038
19781,046
19791,015
19801,133
19811,072
19821,161
19831,153
19841,119
19851,412
19861,296
19871,098
19881,195
19891,119
19901,181
19911,175
19921,203
19931,201
19941,335
19951,792
19961,146
19971,070
19981,401
19991,420
20001,311
20011,243
20021,184
20031,274
20041,193
20051,205
20061,369
20071,410
20081,413
20091,495
20101,482
20111,467
20121,390
20131,240
20141,281
20151,282
20161,233
20171,160
20181,149
20191,171
2020966
20211,033
20221,032
2023898
2024785

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Luis Aragonés, b. 1938Leo XIV, b. 1955Laura Harring, b. 1964Paco Tous, b. 1964Yamandú Orsi, b. 1967Roberto Martínez, b. 1973Itziar Ituño, b. 1974Damián Emiliano Martínez, b. 1992Ángel Correa, b. 1995Lautaro Martínez, b. 1997
  • 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Martinez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1M#10
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201M#10
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—832K#6
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—832K#6
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000775K#11
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—467K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202485K#34
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—62K#3
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—54K#29
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19916.9K—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244K#153
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—3.2K#382

Reference works 7

  • 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)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 312 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Martinez?
We estimate roughly 2.8 million people bear Martinez (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Martinez have the most bearers?
Martinez is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled martinez.
How common is Martinez compared with other names?
In Mexico, Martinez is the 3rd most common surname of 198,716 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Martinez mean?
Recorded meaning: from Spanish Martínez, meaning ‘son of Martin’
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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, “Martinez” — the 3rd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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