Martinez
#11,514 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Martinez has been given to 1,161 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #11,514 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Martinez, 2025
1 in 553,000
Martinez 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Martinez?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,514
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Martinez 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Martinez. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Martinezs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Martinez was born before 1987 — so the typical Martinez is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 23.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,126
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (264).
Is Martinez 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −25
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,817
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.6%
- Peak was 1990 (41)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.7% average annual change
Spellings of Martinez
Martinez is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 98.1% against Martinez's 0.35%.
Where Martinez is used
Across 1910–2025, Martinez was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 865,678 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. Martinez has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Martinez around the world
Where Martinez ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1921–1921#999in 1921
- Canada1992–1992#1,902in 1992
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Martinez by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Martinez
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Martinez
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.