Marten
Marten was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 506 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marten mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marten is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marten?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,537, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1963, the peak
Marten peaked in 1963, when 17 boys were given it, #2,011 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,537 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,742 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,204 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,389 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,459 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,924 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,619 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,773 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,862 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,553 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #12,659 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,050 | 5.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,687 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,172 | 5.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,814 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,679 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,742 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,618 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,247 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,001 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,245 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,764 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,881 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,153 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,197 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,117 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,984 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,696 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,479 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,744 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,278 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,379 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,432 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,483 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,522 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,906 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,425 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,334 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,416 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #2,011 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,459 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,489 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,797 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,482 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,955 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,953 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,586 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,389 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,093 | 3.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,590 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,555 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,567 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,000 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,263 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,609 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,371 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,795 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,511 | 5.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,629 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,856 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,813 | 5.6 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,304 | 7.2 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,742 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,105 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,560 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,573 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,349 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,277 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,683 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marten has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marten, and how old are they?
An estimated 367 Americans named Marten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 26 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 644 people named Marten (10 women and girls, 634 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 318,229 babies since 1880, Marten is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,009 babies recorded by SSA was a Marten (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marten
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 Marten and names like it
- Compare Marten and MartinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMarten peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marten since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Marten.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marten alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.