Names of Martinique MQ

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) records Inaya as the commonest given name in Martinique; the names that most distinguish Martinique from the rest of the world are Francois, Georges and Pierre.

Written in French.

Population
436K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
1.3K
BBuilt from 1 official register (2010), 1,318 name forms in our corpus.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Martinique are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Martinique included.

How names work in Martinique

2 naming traditions are in use in Martinique, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Martinique

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique), 2024 — 59 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Inaya15—
2Aliyah10—
3Emma10144
4Eva10—
5Jade10—
6Luna10—
7Mia10—
8Thaïs10—
9Aaliyah5—
10Adèle5—
11Alma5—
12Alya5—
13Amara5—
14Ambre5—
15Anaya5—
16Anna5—
17Arya5—
18Camille547
19Céleste5—
20Déborah5—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) 2010Across all recordsnoah: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. noahnot rankedethan: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ethannot rankedlucas: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. lucasnot rankedmathis: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. mathisnot rankedmathys: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. mathysnot rankednathan: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. nathannot rankedmael: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. maelnot rankeddylan: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. dylannot rankedenzo: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. enzonot rankedkylian: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. kyliannot rankednolan: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. nolannot rankedthomas: 12 → 35 · ranks lower across all records12. thomas35alexis: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. alexisnot rankednicolas: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. nicolasnot rankednoa: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. noanot rankedsamuel: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. samuelnot rankedyanis: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. yanisnot rankedyannis: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. yannisnot rankedalexandre: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. alexandrenot rankedandy: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. andynot rankedaxel: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. axelnot rankedbenjamin: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. benjaminnot rankeddavid: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. davidnot rankeddayan: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. dayannot rankedemmanuel: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. emmanuelnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique), 2010 on the left; every record we hold for Martinique on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Martinique

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Martinique holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

FrancoisGeorgesPierreLucienMauriceGerardGuyCharlesClaudeFelixThierryRaymondVictoireRoseDeniseOlivierMartheJocelyneAntoineMaxJacquelineAlbertGermaineLouiseJulienneMarysePatriciaSteeveLaurentEdouardYvesJulesThomasRogerJean-ClaudeLucCamilleJosianeMathieuElianeLuciennePatriceGabrielSimoneCatherineChantalJosetteSandraFabriceGiseleRaphaelPauleSoniaBertheErnestVincentMurielleJean-MarcJulienFred
Sized by how much of the difference between Martinique's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

MarieJeanneFrançoiseMoniqueRose19002022560
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique), 1900–2024 (125 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Francoisgiven name●
Georgesgiven name●
Pierregiven name●
Felixgiven name●
Claudegiven name●
The best-attested names in Martinique, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)2024headline (given)

    Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). Counts: residents. given. 333 forms. 1900–2024. Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab).

    What we know about this register

    French overseas department 972. Extracted from INSEE national fichier des prenoms (etat civil / civil registry of births), departmental CSV. First names by sex and year of birth WITH COUNTS (rounded to nearest 5; names with <3 births bucketed as _PRENOMS_RARES_ and excluded). Mayotte (976) data begins 2012.

    Last verified 2026-06-09.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Martinique?
Noah, according to INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) (2010), with 50 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Martinique?
Because they count different people. INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) (2010) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Noah. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Francois. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Martinique?
No — 2 are described on this page (Afro-Caribbean, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Martinique”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/MQ (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique).