Marthá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marthá is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 10th most common given name. Recorded meaning: * From Latin Martha, from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מָרְתָא (mārtā, “mistress”), feminine of מרא (mārā). Doublet of Marfa.
- ECEcuador1 in 197(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 903
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #442 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 495 (measured from records)
- 1 in 197 (inferred from the name graph)
368,239 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
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, NI Nicaragua, EC Ecuador and 1 more.
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
(measured from records)- LatinMartha(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜάρθαMártha(measured from records)
- Aramaicמָרְתָאmārtā“mistress”(measured from records)
* From Latin Martha, from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מָרְתָא (mārtā, “mistress”), feminine of מרא (mārā). Doublet of Marfa. * (humidity chamber): From the use of Martha Stewart-branded storage closets in the construction of early units.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marthá 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 | #586 | 368,239 | 1 in 903 | 368K | Martha | 495 |
| EC Ecuador | #33 | 85,933 | 1 in 197 | 86K | Martha | 82 |
| BR Brazil | #795 | 11,730 | 1 in 18K | 12K | Martha | 163 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2,802 | 1 in 1.8K | 2.8K | — | 56 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,800 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.8K | — | 35 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,258 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.3K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 1,940 | 1 in 2.8K | 5.9K | — | 33 |
| NI Nicaragua | #10 | — | — | — | Martha | 55 |
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marthá mean, and where does it come from?
- * From Latin Martha, from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מָרְתָא (mārtā, “mistress”), feminine of מרא (mārā). Doublet of Marfa. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Marthá a male or female name?
- Marthá is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Marthá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 368 thousand people named Marthá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled martha.
- Where is Marthá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marthá 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 Marthá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 368,239 people named Marthá in 2020, about 1 in 903 residents.
- How common is Marthá compared with other names?
- In the United States, Marthá is the 586th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marth%C3%A1The 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, “Marthá” — the 586th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.