Martina
Martina is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 206 births. Its best rank was 534th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2060.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1964334 births
- Best rank
- #534in 1899
- Since 1880
- 18,336people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,336 girls have been named Martina in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 334 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1980s alone account for 15%. It has spent 117 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Martina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 74 | |
| 1890s | 165 | |
| 1900s | 232 | |
| 1910s | 612 | |
| 1920s | 941 | |
| 1930s | 718 | |
| 1940s | 952 | |
| 1950s | 1,224 | |
| 1960s | 2,473 | |
| 1970s | 1,965 | |
| 1980s | 2,793 | |
| 1990s | 2,261 | |
| 2000s | 1,764 | |
| 2010s | 1,334 | |
| 2020s | 828 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Martina was the 540th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Martina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Georginapeak 2024
- Mariapeak 1964
- Elviapeak 1991
- Elisabethpeak 2001
- Veronicapeak 1980
- Juanapeak 1994
- Leapeak 1970
- Rosanapeak 1983
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.