Girls' name · since 1920
Marth
31 babies named Marth in U.S. Social Security records since 1920, with the highest year being 1939. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 31
- total births
- 1920–1970
- years on record
- 1920s
- peak decade
- 32%
- born in that decade
Marth is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 31 have been recorded since 1920.
Marth has 31 recorded births among girls since 1920, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1920 to 1970.
- 31 total births
- 1920–1970 years on record
- 1920s peak decade
- 32% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marth's 31 recorded births place it above 44% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marth's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Marth's full recorded timeline at 1954, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1920, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1939 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Marth popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1920–1970
- Peak year (1939)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 51 years of records
Marth by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1920s was Marth's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 32% of all-time use.
Marth births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s
1920s
10 births
- 1930s
1930s
6 births
- 1950s
1950s
5 births
- 1960s
1960s
5 births
- 1970s
1970s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 10 births (32% of all-time use).
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- Marth's usage has stayed within range of its 1920s decade-level peak (10 total births) through the 1970s (5) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1920–1970 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marth: Baby Name Since 1920 - 31 Births, Peak 1939." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marth. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Marth draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.