Expect SaintMartin's summer, halcyon days, / Since I have entered into these wars.
1767Laurence 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 ofMartin. - - - 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 butMartin, he would have been damned to all eternity - Not that I look uponMartin, 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”, inOver the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page90:
What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / AndMartin like a flying bird,/
2006,Kate Atkinson,One Good Turn, Black Swan, published2007,→ISBN, page81:
Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't consideredMartin's own name to be 'punchy' enough.
According to the 2010 United States Census,Martin is the 20th 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.
[1] 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.
Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995,→ISBN
[2] 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.
“Martin”, inSlovníkový 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,2003–2025
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996,→ISBN
[3] 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.
