Martez
#4,975 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Martez has been given to 4,103 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #4,975 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 181 recorded.
Babies named Martez, 2025
1 in 166,000
Martez over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Martez?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,975
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Martez sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Martez. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Martezs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Martez was born before 1996 — so the typical Martez is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 31.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,097
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (1,275).
Is Martez rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,319
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,730
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,574
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.37×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 11.0%
- Peak was 1992 (181)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.1% average annual change
Spellings of Martez
Martez is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 38.4% against Martez's 0.50%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Martez is used
Across 2016–2025, Martez was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 39,704 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Martez by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Martez
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Martez
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Martez, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Martez
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.