Marta

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Marta: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Marta: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #92 in 1985, and it stood at #297 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
134times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#92highest recorded position
29groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Marta's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Moved 158 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1666
1998	#2407
1999	#1473
2000	#2416
2001	#1238
2002	#1928
2003	#1722
2004	#1209
2005	#1243
2006	#1243
2007	#987
2008	#734
2009	#717
2010	#559
2011	#629
2012	#934
2013	#733
2014	#763
2015	#735
2016	#681
2017	#753
2018	#778
2019	#724
2020	#894
2021	#1007
2022	#676
2023	#962
2024	#934

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #256 among girls in Norway, #504 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #934 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #167 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #92 among girls in Norway, in 1985 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #297 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Marta appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 2,424 births with the name.

Marta across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Marta's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#167 (1945)	#92 (1985)	#297 (2025)	81 of 81	2,424 (1945–2025)	77 (1985)
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#559 (2010)	#934 (2024)	29 of 29	1,018 (1996–2024)	71 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (2004)	#272 (2009)	#504 (2024)	20 of 21	188 (2004–2024)	18 (2009)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#413 (2007)	#281 (2020)	#418 (2022)	4 of 16	15 (2007–2022)	5 (2020)

Marta by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Marta in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	166	5 of 10	33
1950s	234	10 of 10	23
1960s	169	10 of 10	17
1970s	262	10 of 10	26
1980sbusiest	664	10 of 10	66
1990s	397	10 of 10	40
2000s	186	10 of 10	19
2010s	219	10 of 10	22
2020s	127	6 of 10	21

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 66 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Marta appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #92 in Norway in 1985.

Marta's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#934	38	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#962	36	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#676	55	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#724	53	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#778	49	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#753	53	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#681	61	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#735	53	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#763	51	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#733	54	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#934	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#629	64	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#559	71	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#717	51	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#734	48	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1243	21	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1209	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#281	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#297	13	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#256	16	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#259	16	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#168	28	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#158	29	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#192	25	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#181	29	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#263	17	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#255	20	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#237	23	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#297	16	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#361	12	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#252	22	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#266	20	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#185	31	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#202	29	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#355	13	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#364	12	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#215	27	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#257	19	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#331	13	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#204	27	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#294	14	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#228	21	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#250	18	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#228	22	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#222	22	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#202	26	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#211	25	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#177	33	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#190	31	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#154	43	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#144	48	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#129	58	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#154	46	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#126	65	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#118	66	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#113	66	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#97	73	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#109	65	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#92	77	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#94	76	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#101	71	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#102	66	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#118	57	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#135	47	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#124	52	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#125	50	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#164	34	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#199	26	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#160	37	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#297	15	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#238	19	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#396	9	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#415	8	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#312	12	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#273	15	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#241	18	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#293	12	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#282	13	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#198	21	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#325	10	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#290	12	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#169	24	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#180	23	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#189	21	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#237	15	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#183	21	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#184	21	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#171	25	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#234	15	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#167	24	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#188	21	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#188	22	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#126	38	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#147	32	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#127	42	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#147	32	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#126	41	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#184	24	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#167	27	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	11	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#373	12	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#459	9	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#295	17	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	14	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#377	13	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#272	18	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#323	15	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#373	11	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #92, first reached in 1985.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 77 births, registered in Norway in 1985.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 62 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Marsha · #348, 20y
Marshall · #165, 29y
Marte · #6, 79y
Martha · #67, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Anne-Marie · #97, 77y
Olaf · #85, 79y
June · #83, 81y
Vivian · #110, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

May-Britt · #92, 47y
Bjarte · #93, 60y
Gudrun · #91, 59y
Truls · #91, 81y

Marta was ranked #92 in Norway · Girls in 1985. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Marta and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Marta without appearing here.

Marta moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1238 and #3998.
Pauline Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1722 and #1269 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1209 and #2802.
Janice Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1722 and #1722 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1209 and #2530.
Carol Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1722 and #1722 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1209 and #2278.

Moved ahead of Marta

Maja Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1238 and #1359 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1928 and #1245.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #629 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #934 and #284.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #724 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #894 and #460.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #559 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #629 and #261.

Moved the opposite way to Marta

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Marta went from #167 to #297 while Ada went from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Marta went from #167 to #297 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Marta went from #167 to #297 while Ella went from #137 to #4.
Ellinor Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Marta went from #167 to #297 while Ellinor went from #102 to #7.

Moved the same way as Marta

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Marta went from #167 to #297 and Anita from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Marta went from #167 to #297 and Anne from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Marta went from #167 to #297 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Marta went from #167 to #297 and Aud from #13 to #427.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #92 in Norway in 1985. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Marta

Marta at a glance

What stands out in Marta's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Marta across 4 official records

Marta by decade in Norway · Girls

Marta appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Marta

Marta and the names beside it

Marta moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Marta

Moved the opposite way to Marta

Moved the same way as Marta

Marta at a glance

What stands out in Marta's record

Marta across 4 official records

Marta by decade in Norway · Girls

Marta appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Marta

Marta and the names beside it

Marta moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Marta

Moved the opposite way to Marta

Moved the same way as Marta