Martez
Martez was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,975 among boys’ names; 4,103 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,960 Americans named Martez and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Martez by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Martez?
#4,975 among boys’ names, 2025
Martez fell from #2,401 in 2015 to #4,975 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.2 to 11.7 per million.
181 babies in 1992, the peak
Martez peaked in 1992, when 181 boys were given it, #776 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,975 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,656 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,554 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,082 | 22.9 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,844 | 25.2 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,245 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,233 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,374 | 30.8 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,287 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,267 | 31.1 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,401 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,389 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 76 | #1,872 | 40.2 |
| 2012 | 81 | #1,825 | 42.7 |
| 2011 | 97 | #1,594 | 51.1 |
| 2010 | 80 | #1,824 | 41.7 |
| 2009 | 77 | #1,879 | 38.8 |
| 2008 | 79 | #1,856 | 38.7 |
| 2007 | 85 | #1,754 | 41.0 |
| 2006 | 94 | #1,571 | 45.7 |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,467 | 50.1 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,664 | 39.3 |
| 2003 | 75 | #1,660 | 38.0 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,350 | 50.5 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,444 | 44.3 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,326 | 49.4 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,315 | 47.9 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,116 | 60.2 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,304 | 46.7 |
| 1996 | 110 | #1,094 | 58.1 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,164 | 51.5 |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,065 | 56.9 |
| 1993 | 137 | #918 | 69.9 |
| 1992 | 181 | #776 | 90.6 |
| 1991 | 176 | #772 | 87.1 |
| 1990 | 168 | #780 | 81.8 |
| 1989 | 146 | #819 | 73.0 |
| 1988 | 115 | #893 | 60.1 |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,019 | 46.6 |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,062 | 41.8 |
| 1985 | 87 | #979 | 47.1 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,092 | 37.7 |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,247 | 30.7 |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,111 | 37.5 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,468 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 43 | #1,459 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,096 | 38.9 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,427 | 26.2 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,325 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,808 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 34 | #1,551 | 21.8 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,244 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,805 | 16.0 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,213 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,646 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,433 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,797 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,532 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,342 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,253 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,417 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,283 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Martez a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Martez has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Martez: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Martez, and how old are they?
3,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,103 Americans ever recorded as Martez. The median Martez alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 2,748 people named Martez (32 women and girls, 2,716 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,815 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 319 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 582 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Martez born?
The states with the most babies named Martez are Michigan, Illinois and Missouri, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 844 | not ranked | 5.9× |
| Illinois | 381 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Missouri | 247 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Ohio | 235 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 211 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Tennessee | 174 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 144 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 141 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Maryland | 37 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Martez is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Martez is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1956 it was given 5.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Martez with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Martez
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Martez and names like it
- Compare Martez and KendaleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMartez peaked in 1992.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Martez since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Martez.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Martez alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.