girls:
10 births since 1973
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1920
#3020 (34th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1920
#6061 (22nd percentile)
The name Martel is the #6,061 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,689 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 21.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,020 (34.1% percentile) for all time with 1,679 births since 1920. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1973.
Martel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for boys and 1973 for girls). Birth data for Martel is available in 69 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023 (69 years for boys and 2 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 Martel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Martel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 9.3% percentile (ranked #687) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 34 births per million (ranked 8.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Martel ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 14.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Martel reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #740) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Martel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Martel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Martel is pronounced as mahr-TEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-tehl, at 35.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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