Martha
Martha is ranked 667th among girls in 2024 (431 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- #667up 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4310.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 194710,652 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1882
- Since 1880
- 553,316people given the name
The story in the numbers
551,325 girls have been named Martha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 10,652 births — 0.60% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 431 births in 2024, against 10,652 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1940s alone account for 17%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 86 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,991 boys have also been given it, 0.36% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Martha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 13,911 | |
| 1890s | 19,415 | |
| 1900s | 21,750 | |
| 1910s | 59,509 | |
| 1920s | 86,788 | |
| 1930s | 77,697 | |
| 1940s | 95,386 | |
| 1950s | 83,189 | |
| 1960s | 41,039 | |
| 1970s | 17,925 | |
| 1980s | 13,038 | |
| 1990s | 9,750 | |
| 2000s | 6,169 | |
| 2010s | 3,739 | |
| 2020s | 2,020 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Martha was the 32nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Martha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marypeak 1921
- Drucillapeak 1949
- Nonapeak 1950
- Georgiannapeak 1942
- Rosettapeak 1948
- Lenorapeak 1924
- Nanpeak 1947
- Margretpeak 1921
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.