Martavis — boys' name
311 babies named Martavis in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Martavis was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Martavis in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Martavis
The Social Security Administration has registered 311 babies named Martavis between 1980 and 2019, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Martavis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Martavis performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Martavis shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Martavis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Martavis 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 311 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.
Martavis at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Martavis popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1980
- Peak year (1993)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
311 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 19 births in a single year.
Martavis by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 124 births that decade — 40% of Martavis's all-time total
Martavis decade highlights
- Peak decade 124 births
- Runner-up 90 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Martavis's strongest decade
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Martavis by state
Where Martavis concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Tennessee | | 5 | 1.6% |
5 of 311 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Tennessee 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Tennessee accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.