Märtha
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/met`a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Märtha is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 903(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 197
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 197 (inferred from the name graph)
368,239 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Martha in US United States, HU Hungary.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Märtha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 368,239 | 1 in 903 | 368K | Martha | 102 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 85,933 | 1 in 197 | 86K | — | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 11,730 | 1 in 18K | 12K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2,802 | 1 in 1.8K | 2.8K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,800 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.8K | Märtha | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,258 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.3K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 1,940 | 1 in 2.8K | 5.9K | — | 7 |
| HU Hungary | #358 | — | — | — | Martha | 34 |
368,239 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Martha Eriksdotterb. 1250SE1250-
- Märtha Tynellb. 1865SESwedish painter (1865-1930)
- Märtha Adlerstråhleb. 1868SESwedish tennis player (1868-1956)
- Märtha Brydolfb. 1868SESwedish politician (1868-1956)
- Märtha Ohlsonb. 1876SESwedish pianist
- Märtha Gahnb. 1891SESwedish artist (1891-1973)
- Märtha Nickulb. 1894FIFinnish writer (1894-1974)
- Princess Märtha of Swedenb. 1901SECrown Princess of Norway (1901–1954)
- Märtha Lilius-Tallrothb. 1904FIFinnish architect
- Princess Märtha Louise of Norwayb. 1971NONorwegian princess; daughter of Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.8K | #867 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 655 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 650 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 649 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 647 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 642 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 638 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 638 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 638 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 631 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 624 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 617 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Märtha?
- A machine transcription gives /met`a/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Märtha a male or female name?
- Märtha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Märtha have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 368 thousand people named Märtha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled martha.
- Where is Märtha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Märtha is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 197 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Märtha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 368,239 people named Märtha in 2020, about 1 in 903 residents.
- How common is Märtha compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Märtha is the 358th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Märtha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4rthaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Märtha” — the 358th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.