Martín
From Latin for "of Mars", the war god, so "warlike". In Poland the accented Spanish spelling stays rare: only about 147 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Martín Pronunciation
Martín is pronounced MAHRTÍN (/martín/).
What Martín means
Where Martín comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Martín comes from the Latin Martinus, formed from the name of Mars, the Roman god of war. The short meaning stays close to that root: of Mars, warlike. Spain took the name and made it its own, so it now reads as thoroughly Spanish, common from Madrid to Buenos Aires.
The martial sense sits oddly beside the name's best-known bearer. Martin of Tours was a Roman soldier who left the army and became a bishop. His legend, the half-cloak cut for a freezing beggar, pulled the warlike root toward charity instead.
In Poland the same Latin source grew into Marcin, the variant a child is far more likely to meet on a school register in Kraków. Martín keeps its accent and its Spanish weather. The root is still Mars.
How many people are named Martín
1 in 145212 men in Poland is named Martín. 147 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2676 among male names.
Martín's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Martín as a middle name
Martín is a first name for 147 men in Poland and a middle name for another 96, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 730th, between Jarek (96) and Eren (95).
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#728 Dan96
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#729 Jarek96
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#730 Martín96
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#731 Eren95
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#732 Lionel95