Martinho

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Martin in AR Argentina, US United States, MX Mexico and 20 more, Martín in SV El Salvador and Martino in IT Italy.

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◐

Martinho is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name7.4K records spelled Martinho3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Martinhô

• a separate given name360 records spelled Martinho2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Martínho

• Finnish given name204 records spelled Martinho3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Märtïnhö

• Russian name202 records spelled Martinho6 spellings in the group

  Also written Мартинью, Мартиньо

42 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●

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 word·kaikki.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●

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●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Martinho?

We estimate roughly 983 thousand people bear Martinho (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Martinho have the most bearers?

Martinho is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled martin.

Where is Martinho most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Martinho is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 28 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Martinho compared with other names?

In Argentina, Martinho is the 18th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

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 does the name Martinho mean?

Recorded meaning: Portuguese; derivative of Martin or of any of its Portuguese variants, Martins and Martim.