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The MARTYN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,558 16859 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 254 16172 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1304 -687 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 872 1879 0.005 53
United Kingdom 1,372 4047 0.003 30
Top States for MARTYN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 180 12812 0.001 5
Michigan 119 9662 0.001 12
Illinois 117 10400 0.001 9
Florida 116 13938 0.001 7
New Jersey 88 10233 0.001 10
Top States for MARTYN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 18 4688 0.003 30
Oregon 45 8824 0.001 13
Massachusetts 79 9198 0.001 12
Michigan 119 9662 0.001 12
Alaska 7 13097 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of MARTYN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MARTYN 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 MARTYN 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 MARTYN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 42 2.7
White (Hispanic) 27 1.73
Asian/Pacific 25 1.6
Mixed Race 17 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.96
White (Caucasian) 1,432 91.91

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

Meaning of MARTYN in historical publications

LIARTIN. MARTYN. From the personal name, rendered illustrious by St. Martin, the apostol of the Gauls. Many places in Normandy were dedicated to him, and from one of these sprang the great family who came hitlier at the Conquest under the name of De Sancto Marti no. Both as a personal designation, and a surname, it is very widely spread in all the countries of western Europe. At Paris it is amongst the very commonest of all family names, answering to our own Smith for frequency. Its derivatives are Martins and Martinson. Martineau is well naturalized here, and Martinelli, Martinez, Martini, and other foreign forms are becoming so. The name of the Saint was perhaps derived from the Latin maHhis, waiiike.

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 MARTYN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MARTYN.

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 MARTYN

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