girls:
4.1k births since 1917
#2698 (53rd percentile)
boys:
32.1k births since 1896
#640 (86th percentile)
overall:
36.2k births since 1896
#1311 (83rd percentile)
The name Marty is the #1,311 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36,159 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 83.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #640 (86.1% percentile) for all time with 32,083 births since 1896. For girls, it ranks #2,698 (52.8% percentile) for all time with 4,076 births since 1917.
Marty first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Marty is available in 118 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 97 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 Marty has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 75.4% of babies named Marty were boys.
For boys, Marty reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 72.1% percentile (ranked #184) with 768 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 770 births per million (ranked 71.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marty ranks #873 for boys (4.2% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 3.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marty reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 19.9% percentile (ranked #615) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 76 births per million (ranked 19.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marty ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 10.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marty".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Marty is pronounced as MAHR-tee, which has 2 syllables.
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