girls:
35 births since 1952
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
139 births since 1961
#4447 (3rd percentile)
overall:
174 births since 1952
#7565 (2nd percentile)
The name Marte is the #7,565 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 174 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,447 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 139 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1952.
Marte first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for girls and 1961 for boys). Birth data for Marte is available in 29 out of the 66 years between 1952 and 2017 (23 years for boys and 6 years for girls). 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 Marte has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Marte were boys. Interestingly, until around 1962, the name was more popular for girls (78.3% girls from 1952 to 1961), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (88.7% boys from 1962 to 2017).
For boys, Marte reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #765) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Marte reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marte".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Marte is pronounced as mahrt, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-tay, at 31.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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