Marketa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marketa

The Social Security Administration has registered 673 babies named Marketa between 1954 and 2009, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marketa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 44 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marketa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 279 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Marketa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Marketa in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marketa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 673 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.