Martika
Martika was last recorded in 2001, when 10 babies were given it; 1,077 Americans have been recorded with it between 1986 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Martika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 34 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Martika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Martika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,833, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
273 babies in 1990, the peak
Martika peaked in 1990, when 273 girls were given it, #756 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 | #9,833 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,424 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,024 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,378 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,146 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,824 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,192 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,644 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,020 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 179 | #1,036 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 146 | #1,188 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 273 | #756 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 207 | #889 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,903 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,184 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,646 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Martika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Martika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Martika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Martika, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,077 Americans ever recorded as Martika. The median Martika alive today is 35 years old; half are between 34 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 880 people named Martika (878 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 987 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 65 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,202 babies since 1880, Martika is the most given (90% 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 Martika
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 Martika and names like it
- Compare Martika and MarticiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMartika peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Martika since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Martika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Martika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.