Martavius
Martavius was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,411 among boys’ names; 812 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Martavius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Martavius?
#9,411 among boys’ names, 2025
Martavius fell from #7,841 in 2015 to #9,411 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.
41 babies in 1996, the peak
Martavius peaked in 1996, when 41 boys were given it, #2,094 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,411 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,114 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,444 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,626 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,945 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,171 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,294 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,587 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,582 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,581 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,841 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,630 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,120 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,527 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,873 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,167 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,234 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,400 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,859 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,353 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,756 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,530 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,552 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,413 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,192 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,192 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,650 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,535 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,426 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,094 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,122 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,101 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,484 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,640 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,720 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,123 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,045 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,531 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,904 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,963 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,536 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,594 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,763 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,116 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Martavius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Martavius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Martavius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Martavius, and how old are they?
An estimated 791 Americans named Martavius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 502 people named Martavius (9 women and girls, 493 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 746 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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).
Where are babies named Martavius born?
The states with the most babies named Martavius are Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 129 | not ranked | 7.3× |
| Georgia | 64 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Mississippi | 43 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Alabama | 22 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Martavius is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Martavius is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1982 it was given 7.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Martavius with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,451 babies since 1880, Martavius is the second most given (33% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martavious | 1,328 | 11 | 1998 |
| Martavius | 812 | 8 | 1996 |
| Martavis | 311 | under 5 | 1993 |
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 Martavius
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 Martavius and names like it
- Compare Martavius and MartaviousBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMartavius peaked in 1996.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Martavius since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Martavius.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Martavius alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.