Girls' name · since 1955
Martita
101 babies named Martita in U.S. Social Security records since 1955, with the highest year being 1961. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 101
- total births
- 1955–1980
- years on record
- 1960s
- peak decade
- 45%
- born in that decade
101 girls have been named Martita since 1955, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Martita has 101 recorded births among girls since 1955, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1955 to 1980.
- 101 total births
- 1955–1980 years on record
- 1960s peak decade
- 45% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Martita's 101 recorded births place it above 63% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Martita's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Martita's SSA record in two at 1967 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1962, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1961 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Martita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1955–1980
- Peak year (1961)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Martita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1960s was Martita's strongest decade.
45 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 45% of all-time use.
Martita births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 13
1950s
13 births
- 1960s
1960s
45 births
- 1970s
1970s
37 births
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 45 births (45% of all-time use).
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- Martita's decade-level peak was the 1960s (45 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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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, 1955–1980 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Martita: Baby Name Since 1955 - 101 Births, Peak 1961." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/martita. 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 Martita 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.