Marketta
Marketta reached its high-water mark in 1985 at number 2,222, and has been recorded 865 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2008. About 810 Markettas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marketta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 865
- Estimated living today
- 810
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1985
- Best rank
- 2,222nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1943
How old the living Markettas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 865 babies given the name since 1943, about 810 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Marketta is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1985
The most popular girls’ names the year Marketta peaked:
Marketta among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Marketta | 1,457 | 18,348 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 18,348 who carry it, 1,457 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Marketta against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.