Marta
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a female given name from Aramaic, equivalent to English Martha
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 16th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 132(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 138
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 143
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Marta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #154 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 569 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132 (inferred from the name graph)
368,239 named Martha, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
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.
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)
from the female personal name which appears in the New Testament as Martha (Aramaic Marta ‘lady’), borne by the sister of Lazarus and Mary (of Bethany).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marta is read(measured from records)
Marta is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish62%
del arameo mar, 'señor'; 'la señora'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese14%
a female given name from Aramaic, equivalent to English Martha
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marta in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marta 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 | #123 | 368,239as Martha | 1 in 903 | 368K | Martha | 569 |
| PL Poland | #40 | 289,122 | 1 in 132 | 289K | Marta | 227 |
| CO Colombia | #218 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 267 | Marta | 120 |
| AR Argentina | #70 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 190 | 4K | Marta | 150 |
| ES Spain | #26 | 229,080 | 1 in 218 | 229K | Marta | 289 |
| CZ Czechia | #81 | 77,794 | 1 in 138 | 78K | Marta | 114 |
| SV El Salvador | #44 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | — | Marta | 51 |
| CR Costa Rica | #16 | 12,353 | 1 in 413 | 12K | Marta | 65 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the female personal name which appears in the New Testament as Martha (Aramaic Marta ‘lady’), borne by the sister of Lazarus and Mary (of Bethany).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
New Testament. See }) Martha in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, Nome siriaco, dello stesso significato di Maria.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Nome siriaco, dello stesso significato di Jfaria. 29 luglio. Ne derivano pochi cognomi. Nel friulano ?dartelosai, -mi (3fartelosse)forse c'è una reminiscenza del diminutivo tedesco Martel. Ma in Martelli (Mar- l;inelli), Martucci, ha uguali diritti ilfartino. Per il piemontese Martano vedi Samaritatra.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Márta Pánb. 1923HUsculptor from Hungary and France (1923-2008)
- Martha Hyerb. 1924USactress (1924-2014)
- Marta Kauffmanb. 1956USAmerican TV producer
- Martikab. 1969USnot in their usual nameCuban-American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1969)
- Marta Eturab. 1978ESSpanish actress
- Marta Vieira da Silvab. 1986BRBrazilian footballer (born 1986)
- Marta Domachowskab. 1986PLPolish tennis player
- Marta Gastinib. 1989ITItalian actress
- Marta Torrejónb. 1990ESSpanish footballer
- Marta Kostyukb. 2002UAUkrainian tennis player (born 2002)
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)
Attested in 124 sources across 53 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 289K | #19 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 289K | #19 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 229K | #27 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 228K | #12 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 78K | #63 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54K | #851 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 39K | #72 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 12K | #35 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 242 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 147 | #851 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Marta come from?
- from the female personal name which appears in the New Testament as Martha (Aramaic Marta ‘lady’), borne by the sister of Lazarus and Mary (of Bethany). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Marta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 368 thousand people named Martha, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marta is densest in Poland — about 1 in 132 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Marta?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Marta a male or female name?
- Marta 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.
- What does the name Marta mean?
- In Portuguese, a female given name from Aramaic, equivalent to English Martha
- What are other forms of the name Marta?
- In the etymology graph, Martha, Patsy and Patty are forms of the same name in other languages; Martita is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Marta?
- In Poland, the national register counted 289,122 people named Marta in 2026, about 1 in 132 residents.
- How common is Marta compared with other names?
- In the United States, Marta is the 123rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/martaThe 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, “Marta” — the 123rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.