In 2025, 8 US girls were named Martine, making it the 11,556th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #793, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 205. For comparison, it was #18,199 in 2015 and #2,401 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Martine in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #3,427, reached in 1966. The most boys given the name in a single year was 13, in 1990. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Martine in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 5 babies. In all, 3,018 US babies have been given the name, 90% of them girls and 10% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 755 babies named Martine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 41 US girls were named Martine; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Martha (553,732 babies since 1880), Martina (18,538 babies since 1880), Marta (17,581 babies since 1880) and Martin (317,037 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Tine.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, French and Norwegian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.