Marty
Feminine · “Aramaic "lady”
Marty is given to both — 4,089 girls and 32,180 boys since 1880. See Marty as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Martha is a title. It is Aramaic for the lady or the mistress of the house — the feminine of mar, lord — so the woman busy with serving in the Gospel account is called, by name, the one in charge.
How old is the name Marty?
Marty first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Marty alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 3,300 people named Marty are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marty most popular?
Marty peaked in 1957, reaching #802 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 7,083 places below that high. See the whole 1957 chart.
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Where it comes from
From martā to Marty
The story of Marty
The Aramaic honorific mar is still used in Syriac Christianity as a title for saints and bishops — Mar Ephrem, Mar Thoma — and its feminine martā gave the personal name. In the Gospel of Luke, Martha receives Jesus into her house and is distracted with much serving while her sister Mary sits and listens, a passage that has been read as a contrast between action and contemplation for two thousand years. That the busy sister's name means mistress of the house is a detail the Greek text does not explain and Aramaic speakers would not have needed explained. Marty as a female American name peaks in 1957.
Meaningscholars disagree
Aramaic "lady, mistress"; or a clip of Martin
Martha is Aramaic martā, a lady or mistress, the feminine of mar, lord — the same element in Bartholomew's bar and in the Syriac title Mar for a bishop. Marty as a woman's name may clip Martha or Martina, the feminine of Martin, which is from Mars. Which lies behind an individual bearer varies by family; the two names are unrelated.
How the name formed
- martā
- Martha
- Marty
Related forms: Martie · Martha · Marta
Pronouncing Marty
MAR-tee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Marty and Martie are pronounced identically; by the usual American convention the -ie spelling reads as more clearly feminine.
Nicknames for Marty
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
- 1917
- Most girls named
- 1958134 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #802reached in 1957
- Change vs 2022
- −23.5%13 in 2025, from 17
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.
Marty in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Martie in English — spelling variant
- Martha in English — related form
- Marta in Italian — related form
Martys among us
people named Marty are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Marty
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Marty
- #7885
- Marty on the 2025 chart
- #937
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Marty went to 13 girls in 2025, but Marti is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 23, which makes it the 937th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,948 places above the chart.
- Marty13
- Marti10
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 123,636 for Marty itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Domenica test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marty's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Domenica climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Domenica's path sketches the road Marty is walking now.
Marty 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
Marty beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marty in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, phonetic and impossible to mispronounce.
- The fuller names behind it are settled and very old.
- It is warm and informal by construction.
- It reads as a male name to most Americans.
- It is heard as a nickname rather than a full legal name.
- The 1950s peak dates a bearer strongly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Martys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Marty are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Marty?
- Marty is the most-used spelling in US records — 13 of the 23 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Marti.
- How popular is the name Marty in 2025?
- Marty ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marty?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Marty — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marty with classmates?
- Marty will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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