Marte
Marte was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 174 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marte?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,674, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1993, the peak
Marte peaked in 1993, when 9 boys were given it, #6,060 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,674 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #13,328 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #13,354 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #12,658 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #10,847 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #9,278 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #9,469 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #7,039 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,982 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,779 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,741 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 9 | #6,060 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,080 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,309 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,773 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #5,864 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #4,998 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,885 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,279 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,478 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,993 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,714 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,206 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,340 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,789 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,445 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,838 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,446 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,316 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Marte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 174 Americans recorded as Marte, 20% are girls and 80% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marte, and how old are they?
An estimated 161 Americans named Marte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 29 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 597 people named Marte (255 women and girls, 342 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Marte rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 36,508 babies since 1880, Marte is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 61 babies recorded by SSA was a Marte (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Marte and names like it
- Compare Marte and MartyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarte peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Marte.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marte alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.