Given name & surname
Martini
“cocktail with vermouth and either gin or vodka”
Martini is a surname from Italian. It is used in English and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Martini goes back to a word meaning “cocktail with vermouth and either gin or vodka.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Martini through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 26
- 0 boys · 26 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 176 as a first name in 2020; 7,404 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Martini’s family of names
In German usage, Martini as a surname has a related form in Martin. In Italian usage, Martini as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Lithuanian form Martinaitis. In Greek usage, Martini as a surname is a transliteration of Μαρτίνι.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Martini has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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