Marketa
Marketa was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 673 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marketa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marketa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,157, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1984, the peak
Marketa peaked in 1984, when 44 girls were given it, #2,251 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,157 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,464 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,063 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,156 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,968 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,424 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,018 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,926 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,422 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,587 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 11 | #7,864 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,598 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,586 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,185 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,422 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,961 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,311 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,107 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,584 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,543 | 22.7 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,907 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,251 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,295 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,857 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,584 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,155 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,740 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,011 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,562 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,761 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,630 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,614 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,887 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,019 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,052 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,663 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,133 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,221 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,492 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,141 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,187 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,187 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,130 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,879 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,434 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,718 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,607 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,290 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marketa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marketa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marketa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marketa, and how old are they?
An estimated 640 Americans named Marketa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 36 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 905 people named Marketa (898 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 649 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,820 babies since 1880, Marketa is the third most given (14% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marketa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marketa and names like it
- Compare Marketa and MarkitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarketa peaked in 1984.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marketa since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Marketa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marketa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.