girls:
1.5k births since 1887
#4264 (25th percentile)
boys:
313.4k births since 1880
#108 (98th percentile)
overall:
314.9k births since 1880
#240 (97th percentile)
The name Martin is the #240 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 314,885 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #108 (97.7% percentile) for all time with 313,409 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,264 (25.4% percentile) for all time with 1,476 births since 1887.
Martin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1887 for girls).
The name Martin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Martin reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 90.6% percentile (ranked #63) with 2,825 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 3,352 births per million (ranked 77.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Martin ranks #277 for boys (69.7% percentile) with 626 births per million, which is 18.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Martin reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #782) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Martin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Martin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.1% confident that Martin is pronounced as MAHR-tuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-tihn, at 47.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 R T AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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