girls:
6 births since 1993
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1956
#1928 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1956
#4309 (44th percentile)
The name Martez is the #4,309 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,052 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 44.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,928 (57.9% percentile) for all time with 4,046 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1993.
Martez first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Martez is available in 60 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (60 years for boys and 1 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 Martez has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Martez reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 22.4% percentile (ranked #598) with 86 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 86 births per million (ranked 22.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Martez ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 14.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Martez reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #864) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Martez".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Martez. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.8% confident that Martez is pronounced as mahr-TEHZ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-tehz, at 35.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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