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The MARTEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,362 3908 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 528 9252 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +7834 +5344 +0.002 +20
Other Countries
Australia 98 14465 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MARTEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,142 732 0.018 180
California 755 3878 0.002 22
New Hampshire 732 173 0.059 592
Florida 712 2827 0.004 45
Maine 520 437 0.041 408
Top States for MARTEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 732 173 0.059 592
Vermont 262 288 0.043 430
Maine 520 437 0.041 408
Delaware 244 491 0.031 311
Rhode Island 241 534 0.023 230

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MARTEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MARTEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MARTEL in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MARTEL by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MARTEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MARTEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MARTEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MARTEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 140 1.67
Mixed Race 97 1.16
Native American/Alaskan 80 0.96
Asian/Pacific 40 0.48
White (Caucasian) 6,834 81.73
White (Hispanic) 1,171 14

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MARTEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MARTEL in historical publications

MARTEL. MARTELL. A very ancient French surname, as Charles Martel, Geoffrey Martel. 0. Fr. â– maHel, a hammer ; probably with reference to the martel-defer, the iron hammer or mace of medieval warfare. See Mallet.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MARTEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MARTEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MARTEL

The following words are slight variants of MARTEL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.