Marta
Marta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 90 births. Its best rank was 384th, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 900.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1957444 births
- Best rank
- #384in 1950
- Since 1888
- 17,440people given the name
The story in the numbers
17,440 girls have been named Marta in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 444 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1950s alone account for 24%. It has spent 55 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 54 | |
| 1910s | 206 | |
| 1920s | 335 | |
| 1930s | 560 | |
| 1940s | 1,212 | |
| 1950s | 4,163 | |
| 1960s | 3,417 | |
| 1970s | 2,378 | |
| 1980s | 1,819 | |
| 1990s | 1,383 | |
| 2000s | 903 | |
| 2010s | 636 | |
| 2020s | 363 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Marta was the 446th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Marta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lizabethpeak 1958
- Celindapeak 1954
- Colleenpeak 1964
- Denysepeak 1956
- Tonipeak 1960
- Valoriepeak 1958
- Starlenepeak 1950
- Maripeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.