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Martinez

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Martinez is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
199041 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1941
1,155people given the name
Babies named Martinez, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,126 boys have been named Martinez in the United States since 1941, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 41 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1990s alone account for 23%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 29 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Martinez
1940s6
1950s98
1960s116
1970s192
1980s230
1990s264
2000s129
2010s74
2020s17

In 1990, its biggest year

Martinez was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.

Names that rose and fell with Martinez

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.