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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.