Martyn
The boy's name Martyn has been in the national records since 1917, with 566 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 440 Martyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Martyn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 566
- Estimated living today
- 440
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 1,945th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Martyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 566 babies given the name since 1917, about 440 are alive — 78 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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 Martyns
- Martyn Rooney (born 1987)athletics competitor
- Martyn Poliakoff (born 1947)British chemist
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981)Welsh-English Christian theologian and preacher
- Martyn Bernard (born 1984)British high jump athlete
- Martyn Irvine (born 1985)Irish racing cyclist
- Martyn Waghorn (born 1990)English footballer
- Martyn Kravtsiv (born 1990)Ukrainian chess player
- Martyn Grimley (born 1963)field hockey player
People named Martyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Martyn peaked:
Martyn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Martyn | 1,167 | 77th |
| England and Wales boys | Martyn | 513 | 288th |
| Poland boys | Martyn | 71 birth registrations | 214th |
| France boys | Martyn | 15 | 5,868th |
| Ireland boys | Martyn | 9 | 324th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Martyn | 3 | 277th |
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.
Martyn: rank by region
In 2024, Martyn was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Martyn | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Martyn was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podkarpackie | Martyn | 158 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.
Martyn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Martyn | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – 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
Martyn 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.