Last Name MARTER

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Meaning Nickname: The martyr, one who had obtained the sobriquet by suffering of some sort for his faith's sake. Also 'the martre,' the marten, a weasel. This is the more likely origin, nicknames from animals being so common.
Origin English, Dutch, Irish, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 31,848 (2000 US census) 35,258 (1990 US census)
Count 685 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.74%, or 649 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0.73%, or 5 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.02%, or 7 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 3.07%, or 21 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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