Girls' name · since 1937
Marthalee
Marthalee has 16 recorded births since 1937 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1942 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 16
- total births
- 1937–1942
- years on record
- 1930s
- peak decade
- 63%
- born in that decade
Marthalee sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 16 recorded since 1937.
Marthalee has 16 recorded births among girls since 1937, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1930s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1937 to 1942.
- 16 total births
- 1937–1942 years on record
- 1930s peak decade
- 63% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marthalee's 16 recorded births place it above 32% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marthalee's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Marthalee's full recorded timeline at 1938, 69% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 31% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1937, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1942 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Marthalee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1937–1942
- Peak year (1942)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Marthalee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1930s was Marthalee's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Marthalee births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s
1930s
10 births
- 1940s
1940s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1930s at 10 births (63% of all-time use).
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- Marthalee's usage has stayed within range of its 1930s decade-level peak (10 total births) through the 1940s (6) -- 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, 1937–1942 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marthalee: Baby Name Since 1937 - 16 Births, Peak 1942." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marthalee. 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 Marthalee 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.