Martinez
Martinez was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,514 among boys’ names; 1,161 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Martinez and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 29 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Martinez by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Martinez?
#11,514 among boys’ names, 2025
Martinez rose from #13,331 in 2015 to #11,514 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 3.5 per million.
41 babies in 1990, the peak
Martinez peaked in 1990, when 41 boys were given it, #1,893 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,514 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,629 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,644 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,489 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,992 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,568 | 7.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,571 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,331 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,925 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,370 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #10,359 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,548 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,775 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,756 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,966 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,489 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,469 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,920 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,442 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,939 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,305 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,486 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,471 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,950 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,313 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,879 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,642 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,541 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,269 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,236 | 17.0 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,073 | 17.8 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,893 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,744 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,015 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,433 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,197 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,158 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,772 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,467 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,090 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,150 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,261 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,971 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,531 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,107 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,968 | 15.9 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,736 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,245 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,464 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,618 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,336 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,368 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,988 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,937 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,712 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,570 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,139 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,616 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,984 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,246 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,645 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,540 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,370 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,994 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,156 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,225 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,697 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,679 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,250 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,601 | 3.1 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,372 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Martinez a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,161 Americans recorded as Martinez, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Martinez: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Martinez, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,161 Americans ever recorded as Martinez. The median Martinez alive today is 38 years old; half are between 29 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,794 people named Martinez (400 women and girls, 1,394 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,064 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 108 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 271 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 208 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 69 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Martinez
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 Martinez and names like it
- Compare Martinez and BradlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Martinez since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Martinez.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Martinez alive today were born 1981-1996.
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