Martin

From Middle English Martin, from Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis +‎ -īnus (diminutive suffix). See Mārs for further etymology.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.tɪn/

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• (US, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.tn̩/
• Hyphenation: Mar‧tin
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪn
• Homophone: marten (in some accents)

Martin (countable and uncountable, plural Martins)

1. A male given name from Latin originally given in honor of a fourth century soldier-saint.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
     :Scene 2:

     Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, / Since I have entered into these wars.

   • 1767 Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Book IV ( Slawkenbergius's Tale ):

     Luther was not born in the year 1483, but in 84; and not on the 22nd day of October, but on the 10th of November, the eve of Martinmas day, from whence he had the name of Martin. - - - Now you see, brother Toby, he would say, looking up, "that christian names are not such indifferent things;" - Had Luther here been called by any other name but Martin, he would have been damned to all eternity - Not that I look upon Martin, he would add, as a good name - far from it - 'tis something better than a neutral, and but a little - yet little as it is, you see it was of some service to him.

   • 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Boys' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 90:

     What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird,/

   • 2006, Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn, Black Swan, published 2007, →ISBN, page 81:

     Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough.

2. A surname
   1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
   2. An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a mere.
3. A placename, including:
   1. A small city, the county seat of Bennett County, South Dakota, United States.
   2. A village in Langdon parish, Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3347).

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Martin is the 20^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 702,625 individuals. Martin is most common among White (74.8%) and Black/African American (15.8%) individuals.

• Antrim, matrin

From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”) (Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix)).

Martin (m Martini)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin (indefinite form)
2. a male surname from Latin, equivalent to English Martin. (indefinite form)

• Martinaj

• Mark m, Marku m, Marki, Markaj
• Marte f, Martja f

From Spanish Martín, from Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).

Martin

1. a male given name from Spanish [in turn from Latin], equivalent to English Martin
2. a surname from Spanish [in turn from Latin]

Borrowed from Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmartɪn]

Martin m anim (feminine Martina)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin

• IPA^(key): [ˈmarcɪn]

Martin

1. possessive of Marta: Marta's

• Martin in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).

Martin

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin

• (male given names) Morten
• (female names) Martine
• (surnames) Martinsen, Mortensen

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 58 178 males with the given name Martin have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrtin/, [ˈmɑrtʲin]

Martin

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin

• Mart, Marten, Martti, Märt

Martin m

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin

Patronymics

• son of Martin: Martinsson
• daughter of Martin: Martinsdóttir

Martin

1. genitive singular of Martti

• mitran

Borrowed from Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”, from Mars +‎ -īnus (diminutive suffix)).

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.tɛ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ̃

Martin m

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin. Feminine form: Martine
2. a surname originating as a patronymic

• été de la Saint-Martin

• mirant, rimant

From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarˌtiːn/, [ˈmaʁ-], [ˈmaɐ̯-], [ˈmaː-]

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.tɪn/ (somewhat less common)

Martin

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin

• Martinssingen

• Martina (female name)
• Martinisingen

Martin m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Martins or (with an article) Martin, feminine genitive Martin, plural Martins)

1. a surname originating as a patronymic

• Martyn

From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis +‎ -īnus (diminutive suffix). See Mārs for further etymology.

Martin

1. a male given name

• English: Martin
• Yola: Marteen

• “Martin”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix). First recorded in Norway ca. 1200.

Martin

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin

• The most common given name of men born in Norway in the 1990s.

• (male given names) Morten
• (female given names) Martine
• (surnames) Martinsen, Mortensen

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 20 132 males with the given name Martin living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).

Martin m (nominative singular Martins)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Martin m

1. a male given name

• Martĩiz

• Martinho

• Portuguese: Martim

• Universo Cantigas - "Martin"

• IPA^(key): [ˈmartin]

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Martin m anim (genitive singular Martina, nominative plural Martinovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin
2. Martin (a city in Slovakia)

• “Martin”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

From Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”), Mārs, Mārtis + -īnus (diminutive suffix).

Martin c (genitive Martins)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin

• (male given names) Mårten
• (female given names) Martina
• (surnames) Martinsson, Mårtensson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 72 420 males with the given name Martin living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.