Martel

At the 2020 census, 8,406 Americans bore the surname Martel — 4,094th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,600.

By the numbers

People: 8,406
Rank: 4,094th
How common: 1 in 35,600
Per 100,000: 2.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Martel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.1%
Hispanic or Latino 20.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Martel

Yann Martel (born 1963)Canadian writer
Lucrecia Martel (born 1966)Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer
Christiane Martel (born 1936)French actress and beauty queen
Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859–1938)French cave explorer
Sherri Martel (1958–2007)American professional wrestler and manager
Arlene Martel (1936–2014)American writer, actress and acting coach
Marc Martel (born 1976)Canadian rock musician
Eric Martel (born 2002)German association football player

People named Martel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Martel

Also a first name

Martel has been given to 1,706 American babies as a first name since 1920, peaking in 1991. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.