Marta
Feminine · “lady”
Marta is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 17,535 girls against 46 boys since 1880.
Marta is Martha — the Aramaic for lady, the mistress of a house — and she is the one who complains in the gospel and is answered.
How old is the name Marta?
Marta first appears in US birth records in 1888 — 137 years ago. The typical Marta alive today was born around 1964, making them about 61 years old. About 15,000 people named Marta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marta most popular?
Marta peaked in 1950, reaching #384 nationally. Today it ranks #2051, 1,667 places below that high. See the whole 1950 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mar to Marta
The story of Marta
Luke has Martha busy with serving while her sister sits and listens, and complains about it; the answer she gets has been argued over for two thousand years. That her name simply means 'lady of the house' sharpens the scene considerably. Marta is standard across southern and eastern Europe and is in current American use.
Meaning
lady, mistress
From the Aramaic marta, the feminine of mar, 'lord' — so 'lady' or 'mistress of the house'. It is one of the few New Testament names preserved in Aramaic rather than Hebrew or Greek. Marta is the standard Spanish, Italian, Polish and Scandinavian form. The reading is undisputed.
How the name formed
- mar
- marta
- Marta
Related forms: Marta · Marta · Marta · Martha
Pronouncing Marta
MAR-tah
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said nearly identically across Spanish, Italian and Polish.
Nicknames for Marta
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1888
- Most girls named
- 1957444 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #384reached in 1950
- Change vs 2022
- +16.5%92 in 2025, from 79
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marta in Spanish — same name
- Marta in Italian — same name
- Marta in Polish — same name
- Martha in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Martas among us
people named Marta are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 17,470 born in 2025 was named Marta
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marjory test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marta's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marjory climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marjory's path sketches the road Marta is walking now.
Marta sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Marta is headed
Marta should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Marta beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marta in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That her name means lady of the house makes the gospel scene sharper.
- It is standard across Spanish, Italian, Polish and Scandinavian naming without change.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Martha is what English speakers will assume.
- The gospel figure is remembered chiefly for a complaint.
- It reads as European rather than English.
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Frequently asked
- How many Martas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 15,000 people named Marta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marta in 2025?
- Marta ranks #2051 among US girl names in 2025, with 92 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marta?
- About 1 in every 17,470 US girls born in 2025 was named Marta — 92 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marta with classmates?
- Marta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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