Marty
Marty is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 43 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,167 among girls’ names and #2,913 among boys’, #5,243 among all names counting both); 36,269 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 28,500 Americans named Marty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 52 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marty mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marty is “a diminutive of the male given names Martin and Marten.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Martha, or less often, of Martina.”
From Martin + -y.
/ˈmɑɹti/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marty?
#2,913 among boys’ names, 2025
Marty fell from #2,895 in 2015 to #2,913 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 25.2 per million.
1,736 babies in 1962, the peak
Marty peaked in 1962, when 1,736 babies were given it (1,614 boys, #186 among boys’ names). The 56 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,167 | 43 | #2,913 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 51 | #2,618 | |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,898 | 44 | #2,870 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,888 | 42 | #2,980 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,835 | 63 | #2,248 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,001 | 45 | #2,740 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,517 | 51 | #2,571 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,097 | 32 | #3,486 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,130 | 66 | #2,102 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 41 | #2,916 |
Every recorded year (120)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 41 | #2,895 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,867 | 50 | #2,502 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,627 | 42 | #2,792 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 50 | #2,510 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 45 | #2,688 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 40 | #2,943 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 53 | #2,432 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,440 | 51 | #2,495 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,839 | 66 | #2,085 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 47 | #2,563 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 53 | #2,256 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,840 | 49 | #2,328 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,074 | 58 | #1,995 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,172 | 67 | #1,732 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,693 | 69 | #1,688 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 92 | #1,376 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,786 | 71 | #1,564 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,511 | 93 | #1,290 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,578 | 79 | #1,391 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,416 | 107 | #1,116 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,880 | 97 | #1,175 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,460 | 137 | #943 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,485 | 121 | #983 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,758 | 126 | #955 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,531 | 149 | #854 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,198 | 169 | #777 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,305 | 168 | #761 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,767 | 189 | #685 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,817 | 172 | #691 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,418 | 178 | #674 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,935 | 155 | #713 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,175 | 182 | #636 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,679 | 209 | #589 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,849 | 230 | #566 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,308 | 240 | #547 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,380 | 307 | #482 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,619 | 333 | #445 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,881 | 338 | #434 |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,891 | 442 | #373 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,898 | 480 | #349 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,664 | 573 | #314 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,375 | 617 | #301 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,247 | 588 | #301 |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,426 | 613 | #303 |
| 1971 | 91 | #1,235 | 822 | #265 |
| 1970 | 104 | #1,130 | 918 | #251 |
| 1969 | 80 | #1,252 | 962 | #237 |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,141 | 1,005 | #224 |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,249 | 979 | #225 |
| 1966 | 85 | #1,157 | 976 | #223 |
| 1965 | 87 | #1,140 | 1,221 | #205 |
| 1964 | 110 | #1,030 | 1,446 | #196 |
| 1963 | 146 | #868 | 1,590 | #186 |
| 1962 | 122 | #964 | 1,614 | #186 |
| 1961 | 131 | #945 | 1,459 | #201 |
| 1960 | 119 | #981 | 1,535 | #195 |
| 1959 | 115 | #987 | 1,454 | #198 |
| 1958 | 134 | #880 | 1,416 | #198 |
| 1957 | 159 | #802 | 1,347 | #201 |
| 1956 | 130 | #876 | 1,013 | #229 |
| 1955 | 86 | #1,091 | 618 | #287 |
| 1954 | 72 | #1,183 | 422 | #347 |
| 1953 | 95 | #982 | 359 | #360 |
| 1952 | 98 | #941 | 279 | #413 |
| 1951 | 103 | #897 | 222 | #455 |
| 1950 | 86 | #985 | 179 | #498 |
| 1949 | 84 | #975 | 182 | #492 |
| 1948 | 94 | #900 | 163 | #518 |
| 1947 | 69 | #1,074 | 169 | #522 |
| 1946 | 74 | #974 | 146 | #533 |
| 1945 | 74 | #879 | 119 | #551 |
| 1944 | 64 | #978 | 92 | #648 |
| 1943 | 68 | #961 | 88 | #687 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,222 | 86 | #698 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,377 | 58 | #836 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,431 | 49 | #914 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,457 | 50 | #880 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,495 | 47 | #924 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,669 | 45 | #940 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,226 | 35 | #1,112 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,340 | 26 | #1,342 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,881 | 29 | #1,259 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,810 | 29 | #1,244 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,768 | 26 | #1,370 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,927 | 28 | #1,324 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,375 | 32 | #1,269 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,989 | 22 | #1,592 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,078 | 19 | #1,801 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,797 | 21 | #1,730 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,820 | 20 | #1,768 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,502 | 11 | #2,691 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,564 | 21 | #1,760 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,767 | 15 | #2,191 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,508 | 21 | #1,738 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,577 | 15 | #2,227 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,752 | 12 | #2,545 |
| 1919 | under 5 | 14 | #2,220 | |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,729 | 11 | #2,643 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,038 | 23 | #1,514 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 16 | #1,912 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 13 | #2,135 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 16 | #1,584 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 13 | #1,556 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 9 | #1,832 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 6 | #1,395 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 6 | #1,289 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 5 | #1,357 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 8 | #934 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 8 | #888 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 6 | #1,059 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Marty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 36,269 Americans recorded as Marty, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marty, and how old are they?
28,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 36,269 Americans ever recorded as Marty. The median Marty alive today is 61 years old; half are between 52 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 28,375 people named Marty (3,601 women and girls, 24,774 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 30,220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 438 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,710 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 710 |
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).
Where are babies named Marty born?
The states with the most babies named Marty are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,784 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 2,078 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 1,774 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 1,656 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 1,569 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 1,502 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 1,288 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 1,219 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 1,105 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Missouri | 1,026 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Marty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marty is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marty with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 36,508 babies since 1880, Marty is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 61 babies (92%), again the most given.
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 Marty
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 Marty and names like it
- Compare Marty and MarteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMarty peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marty since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Marty.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marty alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.