Martez
Masculine
Martez is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 4,097 boys against 6 girls since 1880.
Martez belongs to a small American family of names that end in -tez, an ending borrowed from Spanish surnames like Cortez and Gutierrez and then used freely: Deontez, Martez, Kentez. The opening comes from Mars by way of Martin, and the two halves were joined here.
How old is the name Martez?
Martez first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Martez alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 4,000 people named Martez are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Martez most popular?
Martez peaked in 1991, reaching #774 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 4,083 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Martez
American naming borrows endings from wherever they sound right, and Spanish surnames were a rich source in the nineteen-eighties and nineties: the -ez close is crisp, it lands with a z, and it makes an ordinary opening syllable feel finished. Martez takes the first part of Martin, which has been in English since the Romans left, and gives it that ending. What comes out belongs to neither language exactly and to American English entirely, which is where it was made and where it is used.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No inherited meaning as a compound. The -ez ending is real in Spanish, where it forms patronymics: Martinez means son of Martin. But Martez is not a Spanish word or name, and the ending was borrowed for its sound rather than its grammar, so it does not mean son of anything.
Pronouncing Martez
mar-TEZ
Two syllables with the stress at the end, the z fully voiced. Spanish speakers may say mar-TES with an s sound, following Spanish orthography.
Nicknames for Martez
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1956
- Most boys named
- 1991176 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #774reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- −35.5%20 in 2025, from 31
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Martez in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee.
Martezs among us
people named Martez are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Martez
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Trinity test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Martez's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Trinity climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Trinity's path sketches the road Martez is walking now.
Martez sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Martez beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Martez in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The stress at the end gives it a firm, carrying rhythm.
- Tez works as a short form and is unusual enough to stay distinctive.
- Every sound in it is familiar to English and Spanish speakers alike.
- Martez, Martes and Marteze all appear, so the spelling will be asked for.
- Spanish speakers may read it as the word for Tuesday, which is martes.
- The ending places the name firmly in two decades of American naming.
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Frequently asked
- How many Martezs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,000 people named Martez are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Martez in 2025?
- Martez ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Martez?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Martez — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Martez with classmates?
- Martez will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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