Marta
Marta is a girl's name that peaked in 1957, when it was the 446th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,051st. About 15,000 Martas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marta boys named Marta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,581
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 446th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,051st
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 17,535 / 46
How old the living Martas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,581 babies given the name since 1888, about 15,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 4,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 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.
Notable Martas
- Marta (born 1986)Brazilian footballer
- Marta Kostyuk (born 2002)Ukrainian tennis player
- Márta Mészáros (born 1931)Hungarian screenwriter and film director
- Marta Torrejón (born 1990)Spanish footballer
- Marta Jandová (born 1974)Czech singer
- Márta Sebestyén (born 1957)Hungarian singer of folk songs
- Marta Eggerth (1912–2013)American actress, singer
- Marta Kauffman (born 1956)American TV producer
People named Marta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marta is most concentrated in Texas (3.0×), California (2.4×), New York (1.7×), Illinois (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Marta peaked:
Marta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Marta | 58,672 | 5th |
| Italy girls | Marta | 43,617 | — |
| Poland girls | Marta | 39,785 birth registrations | 17th |
| Sweden girls | Märta | 3,082 | 64th |
| Norway girls | Marta | 2,424 | 90th |
| France girls | Marta | 1,240 | 683rd |
| England and Wales girls | Marta | 1,049 | 559th |
| Switzerland girls | Marta | 621 | 197th |
| Belgium girls | Marta | 424 | 324th |
| Ireland girls | Marta | 188 | 272nd |
| Scotland girls | Marta | 53 | 420th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Marta | 15 | 281st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Marta: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Marta | 358 | 0.029% | 187th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Marta | 134 | 0.031% | 157th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Marta | 128 | 0.196% | 27th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Marta | 1 | 0.027% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Marta is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.20% of children were given it – 125 of them.
Marta: rank by region
In 2025, Marta was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Marta | 249 | 22 |
In 2015, Marta was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andalucía | Marta | 10 | 648 |
In 2024, Marta was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Marta | 7 | 2 |
In 2025, Marta was given 2 times or more in 15 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Marta | 75 | 22 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Marta | 86 | 9 |
| Lubelskie | Marta | 90 | 9 |
| Łódzkie | Marta | 82 | 13 |
| Małopolskie | Marta | 86 | 24 |
| Mazowieckie | Marta | 105 | 26 |
| Opolskie | Marta | 59 | 10 |
| Podkarpackie | Marta | 118 | 5 |
| Podlaskie | Marta | 87 | 5 |
| Pomorskie | Marta | 78 | 22 |
| Śląskie | Marta | 54 | 54 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Marta | 96 | 3 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Marta | 84 | 6 |
| Wielkopolskie | Marta | 76 | 26 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Marta | 98 | 6 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marta appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (182nd) and Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Marta by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 117 | 125th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Marta 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 | Märta +2 spellings | 520 | 718 |
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.
Where Marta lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 229,080 women called Marta were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Marta | 5,485 | 13.247 | 3 |
| Barcelona | Marta | 40,286 | 13.237 | 4 |
| Lleida | Marta | 2,671 | 11.989 | 6 |
| Sevilla | Marta | 11,542 | 11.389 | 15 |
| Cantabria | Marta | 3,303 | 10.788 | 10 |
| Zaragoza | Marta | 5,368 | 10.563 | 8 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marta against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.