Martell
Martell was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,493 among boys’ names; 2,666 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,440 Americans named Martell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Martell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Martell?
#7,493 among boys’ names, 2025
Martell fell from #3,648 in 2015 to #7,493 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 6.4 per million.
124 babies in 1986, the peak
Martell peaked in 1986, when 124 boys were given it, #814 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,493 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,687 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,759 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,148 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,473 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,172 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,421 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,436 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,348 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,575 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,648 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,346 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,746 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,148 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,487 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 43 | #2,816 | 22.4 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,878 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,319 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,354 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,609 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,735 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,931 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,412 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,661 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,964 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 45 | #2,208 | 22.9 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,123 | 23.4 |
| 1998 | 56 | #1,803 | 29.3 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,079 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 54 | #1,729 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,538 | 32.6 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,569 | 30.5 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,370 | 36.2 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,222 | 42.6 |
| 1991 | 106 | #1,045 | 52.5 |
| 1990 | 117 | #965 | 57.0 |
| 1989 | 105 | #996 | 52.5 |
| 1988 | 104 | #945 | 54.3 |
| 1987 | 105 | #925 | 56.2 |
| 1986 | 124 | #814 | 67.3 |
| 1985 | 117 | #829 | 63.3 |
| 1984 | 90 | #927 | 49.9 |
| 1983 | 111 | #832 | 61.9 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,086 | 39.1 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,305 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,802 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,289 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,533 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,044 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,399 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,615 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,479 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,604 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,760 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,088 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,587 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,341 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,441 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,415 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,209 | 3.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,917 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,481 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,169 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,282 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,742 | 2.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,009 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,999 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,067 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,329 | 4.4 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,771 | 4.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,848 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,777 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,974 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,007 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,972 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,132 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,855 | 5.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,516 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,616 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,168 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,643 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,715 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,164 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,104 | 5.6 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,572 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,107 | 8.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Martell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,666 Americans recorded as Martell, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Martell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Martell, and how old are they?
2,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,666 Americans ever recorded as Martell. The median Martell alive today is 34 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,857 people named Martell (67 women and girls, 1,790 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 41 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 127 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 612 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 302 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Martell born?
The states with the most babies named Martell are Illinois, Michigan and California, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 565 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Michigan | 359 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| California | 161 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 66 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Martell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Martell is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1915 it was given 4.6 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 Martell 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,372 babies since 1880, Martell is the most given (61% 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 Martell
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 Martell and names like it
- Compare Martell and MartelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMartell peaked in 1986.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Martell since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Martell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Martell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.