Marketta
Marketta was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 865 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marketta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marketta mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Marketta is “a female given name”
A vernacular form of Margareeta, Margareetta.
/ˈmɑrketːɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marketta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,744, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1985, the peak
Marketta peaked in 1985, when 46 girls were given it, #2,242 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,744 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,825 | 2.7 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,017 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,019 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,423 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,169 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,866 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,198 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,184 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,325 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 25 | #4,147 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,858 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,779 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,540 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,599 | 22.4 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,237 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,242 | 26.7 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,707 | 20.2 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,412 | 23.3 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,968 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,100 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,044 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,404 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,453 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,132 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,895 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,586 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,903 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,089 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,655 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,238 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,808 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,273 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,137 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,164 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,372 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,357 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,327 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,421 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,934 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,276 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,841 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,992 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,669 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,426 | 6.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,029 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,167 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,438 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,486 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,924 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,508 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marketta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marketta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marketta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marketta, and how old are they?
An estimated 806 Americans named Marketta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 720 people named Marketta (720 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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, Marketta is the second most given (18% 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 Marketta
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 Marketta and names like it
- Compare Marketta and MarkitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarketta peaked in 1985.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marketta since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Marketta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Marketta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marketta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.