Martine
Feminine · “of Mars”
Martine is given to both — 2,705 girls and 313 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
The English word chapel comes from a cloak. Martin of Tours cut his in half for a beggar at the gate of Amiens, the surviving half became a relic of the Frankish kings, the little building that housed it was called a cappella, and the priest who kept it was the chaplain. All of it from one man's coat.
How old is the name Martine?
Martine first appears in US birth records in 1894 — 131 years ago. The typical Martine alive today was born around 1971, making them about 54 years old. About 2,200 people named Martine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Martine most popular?
Martine peaked in 1981, reaching #791 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 10,126 places below that high. See the whole 1981 chart.
Where it comes from
From Mars to Martine
The story of Martine
Martin of Tours was a conscript in the Roman cavalry who gave half his cloak to a freezing beggar, dreamed that night of Christ wearing it, and afterwards refused to fight. He became a bishop, and after his death the half-cloak was kept by the Frankish kings as their most important relic and carried into battle. The Latin for a short cloak is cappa, and the diminutive cappella meant both the relic and the tent or room built to hold it. From that room English has chapel, and from its custodian, chaplain. Martine is the French feminine, ordinary in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and it reached American records with families from all three.
Meaning
of Mars
From Latin Martinus, an adjective formed on Mars, the Roman god of war. That is the whole derivation, and it produces an oddity: the most famous Martin in Christian history was a soldier who left the army because he would not fight, and his name means belonging to the war god.
How the name formed
- Mars
- Martinus
- Martin
- Martine
Related forms: Martine · Martine · Martina · Martina · Martina
Pronouncing Martine
mar-TEEN
Two syllables, stress on the second, with the final e silent as in French. Americans sometimes say mar-TEE-nuh with three, treating the e as Italian; both are heard, and the two-syllable version is the French one.
Nicknames for Martine
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
- 1894
- Most girls named
- 198296 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #791reached in 1981
- Change vs 2022
- +60.0%8 in 2025, from 5
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.
Martine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Martine in French — same name
- Martine in Dutch — same name
- Martina in Italian — same name
- Martina in Spanish — same name
- Martina in Czech — same name
Martines among us
people named Martine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Martine
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 Nada test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Martine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nada climbed just as high around 1934, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nada's path sketches the road Martine is walking now.
Martine 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
Martine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Martine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Latin meaning and a documented fourth-century bearer with a story attached.
- The same spelling in French and Dutch, and only one letter from the Italian and Spanish.
- Tina works at once and is a full name of its own.
- Americans reliably add a syllable at the end, which turns it into Martina.
- The meaning is of the war god, which sits oddly with the saint the name actually recalls.
- The very few boys given this spelling will be read as girls on paper.
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Frequently asked
- How many Martines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Martine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Martine in 2025?
- Martine ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Martine?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Martine — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Martine with classmates?
- Martine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Martine
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