Mart
Mart is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 623rd, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195828 births
- Best rank
- #623in 1891
- Since 1880
- 1,039people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,039 boys have been named Mart in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 28 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 28 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1950s alone account for 17%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mart | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 47 | |
| 1890s | 55 | |
| 1900s | 24 | |
| 1910s | 93 | |
| 1920s | 151 | |
| 1930s | 95 | |
| 1940s | 102 | |
| 1950s | 180 | |
| 1960s | 153 | |
| 1970s | 91 | |
| 1980s | 37 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Mart was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1958 were Michael, David, James, Robert and John. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Mart
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Colonelpeak 1920
- Sidpeak 1960
- Christpeak 1923
- Gustavepeak 1915
- Nelspeak 1918
- Fatepeak 1919
- Perleypeak 1915
- Alvapeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.