Marketta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marketta

The Social Security Administration has registered 865 babies named Marketta between 1943 and 2008, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marketta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 46 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marketta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 300 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Marketta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Marketta in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marketta 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 865 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.