Martine
Martine reached its high-water mark in 1981 at number 791, and has been recorded 3,018 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 2,500 Martines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Martine boys named Martine
Girls and boys called Martine
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 2,705 girls and 313 boys in all, and in 2000 the split was 14 to 11.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 45 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,018
- Estimated living today
- 2,500
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 791st
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1894
- Girls / boys
- 2,705 / 313
How old the living Martines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,018 babies given the name since 1894, about 2,500 are alive — 83 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Martines
- Martine Aubry (born 1950)French politician
- Martine Carol (1920–1967)French actress
- Martine Beswick (born 1941)Jamaican actress and model
- Martine McCutcheon (born 1976)English actress and singer
- Martine Bertereau (1590–1642)French scientist (c. 1590 - after 1642)
- Martine Grael (born 1991)Brazilian sailor
- Martine Brochard (1944–2025)French actress
- Martine Moïse (born 1974)Haitian politician
People named Martine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Martine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Martine is most concentrated in New York (6.4×), Kentucky (3.3×), Florida (2.2×), California (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular girls’ names the year Martine peaked:
Martine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Martine | 320,130 | 2nd |
| Norway girls | Martine | 7,826 | 12th |
| England and Wales girls | Martine | 181 | 748th |
| Scotland girls | Martine | 139 | 237th |
| France boys | Martine | 40 | 1,512th |
| Ireland girls | Martine | 33 | 288th |
| Belgium girls | Martine | 23 | 969th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Martine | 3 | 351st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Martine: rank by region
In 1997, Martine was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Martine | 419 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Martine among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Martine | 8,568 | 17,896 |
| the Netherlands boys | Martine | — | 65 |
| Finland girls | Martine | 10 | 39 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Martine lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 271 women called Martine were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Martine | 16 | 0.039 | 1,527 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Martine | 39 | 0.038 | 1,605 |
| Balears, Illes | Martine | 20 | 0.032 | 1,778 |
| Tarragona | Martine | 13 | 0.030 | 1,828 |
| Málaga | Martine | 26 | 0.028 | 1,688 |
| Bizkaia | Martiñe | 15 | 0.025 | 1,833 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Martine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.