Marty
Marty is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 51 births. Its best rank was 186th, in 1962–1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 510.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19621,614 births
- Best rank
- #186first in 1962
- Since 1896
- 36,211people given the name
The story in the numbers
32,135 boys have been named Marty in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 1,614 births.
The name has all but left use: 51 births in 2024, against 1,614 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 40%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,076 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Marty | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 33 | |
| 1910s | 115 | |
| 1920s | 177 | |
| 1930s | 347 | |
| 1940s | 1,152 | |
| 1950s | 7,309 | |
| 1960s | 12,786 | |
| 1970s | 5,724 | |
| 1980s | 2,030 | |
| 1990s | 1,149 | |
| 2000s | 605 | |
| 2010s | 457 | |
| 2020s | 245 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Marty was the 186th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Marty
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timmypeak 1960
- Jefforypeak 1967
- Timmiepeak 1959
- Robpeak 1963
- Kirkpeak 1962
- Gregpeak 1961
- Curtpeak 1960
- Greggpeak 1962
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.