girls:
17.3k births since 1888
#1129 (80th percentile)
boys:
46 births since 1971
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
17.4k births since 1888
#1956 (75th percentile)
The name Marta is the #1,956 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,395 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 74.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,129 (80.3% percentile) for all time with 17,349 births since 1888. For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1971.
Marta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Marta is available in 123 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (123 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Marta has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marta reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 47.6% percentile (ranked #352) with 252 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 252 births per million (ranked 47.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marta ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 13.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marta reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 5 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marta".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Marta is pronounced as MAHR-tuh, which has 2 syllables.
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