Martinus
About 29 American babies have been named Martinus since 1970, most of them around 1982. It has not appeared in the national data since 1993. About 30 Martinuses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Martinus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 29
- Estimated living today
- 30
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 5,003rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1970
How old the living Martinuses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 29 babies given the name since 1970, about 30 are alive — 93 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 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 Martinuss
- Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931–2021)Dutch theoretical physicist
- Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck (1851–1931)Dutch microbiologist
- Martinus Rørbye (1803–1848)Danish artist
- Martinus Nijhoff (1894–1953)Dutch writer
- Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798)Dutch naturalist
- Martinus Thomsen (1890–1981)Danish mystic
- Martinus van Marum (1750–1837)scientist from the Northern Netherlands
- Martinus Theunis Steyn (1858–1916)6th President of the Orange Free State and South African judge.
People named Martinus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1982
The most popular boys’ names the year Martinus peaked:
Martinus elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Martinus | 325 | 255th |
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.
Martinus 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 boys | Martinus | 41,524 | 112,919 |
| the Netherlands girls | Martinus | 11 | 1,300 |
| Finland boys | Martinus | — | 20 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,300 who carry it, 11 go by it.
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.
Related names
Martinus against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.