How popular is “Martha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Martha” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Martha” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Martha” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Martha” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Martha” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Martha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Martha” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	1040	0.0051617	1040		100%
1881	1044	0.005418085	1044		100%
1882	1239	0.005592846	1229	10	98%
1883	1264	0.005826334	1255	9	99%
1884	1443	0.005927027	1443		100%
1885	1430	0.005937207	1425	5	99%
1886	1498	0.005867239	1491	7	99%
1887	1509	0.006099632	1504	5	99%
1888	1780	0.005943755	1769	11	99%
1889	1711	0.005921522	1711		100%
1890	1789	0.005935614	1784	5	99%
1891	1744	0.006083587	1744		100%
1892	1915	0.00572712	1915		100%
1893	1813	0.005574637	1805	8	99%
1894	1975	0.005831291	1968	7	99%
1895	2105	0.005996809	2096	9	99%
1896	2031	0.005681373	2022	9	99%
1897	1996	0.005752874	1990	6	99%
1898	2191	0.005743797	2184	7	99%
1899	1915	0.005645071	1907	8	99%
1900	2446	0.005432441	2437	9	99%
1901	1894	0.005476964	1886	8	99%
1902	2038	0.005269785	2030	8	99%
1903	1980	0.005194124	1980		100%
1904	2019	0.005003904	2019		100%
1905	2097	0.004946665	2091	6	99%
1906	2207	0.005151114	2199	8	99%
1907	2283	0.004905563	2274	9	99%
1908	2332	0.004772342	2324	8	99%
1909	2520	0.004929346	2510	10	99%
1910	2871	0.004860245	2858	13	99%
1911	3030	0.004702939	3019	11	99%
1912	3918	0.003965338	3911	7	100%
1913	4554	0.00400489	4538	16	99%
1914	5446	0.003845111	5432	14	99%
1915	7235	0.003948318	7216	19	99%
1916	7630	0.003944341	7610	20	99%
1917	8279	0.004125576	8261	18	100%
1918	8358	0.003849642	8342	16	100%
1919	8350	0.003956886	8322	28	99%
1920	8728	0.003857436	8709	19	100%
1921	9281	0.003975575	9264	17	100%
1922	9040	0.003949054	9021	19	100%
1923	8990	0.003904484	8961	29	99%
1924	9359	0.003929695	9320	39	99%
1925	8801	0.003771908	8762	39	99%
1926	8592	0.003742315	8556	36	99%
1927	8344	0.003597547	8304	40	99%
1928	8289	0.003666177	8252	37	99%
1929	7678	0.00350248	7639	39	99%
1930	7866	0.003538003	7831	35	99%
1931	7521	0.003573961	7482	39	99%
1932	7614	0.003606324	7579	35	99%
1933	7202	0.003601996	7164	38	99%
1934	7641	0.00367919	7604	37	99%
1935	7657	0.003663812	7621	36	99%
1936	7431	0.003576761	7391	40	99%
1937	7983	0.003746709	7954	29	99%
1938	8620	0.003895915	8579	41	99%
1939	8539	0.003875301	8492	47	99%
1940	8740	0.003795569	8695	45	99%
1941	9201	0.003776435	9157	44	99%
1942	9536	0.003490716	9511	25	99%
1943	9730	0.003447226	9705	25	99%
1944	9364	0.003480939	9336	28	99%
1945	8773	0.003306935	8751	22	99%
1946	9793	0.003064807	9759	34	99%
1947	10674	0.002963089	10652	22	100%
1948	10033	0.002905995	10011	22	100%
1949	9837	0.00282285	9809	28	99%
1950	9853	0.002812444	9838	15	100%
1951	9634	0.002615278	9605	29	99%
1952	9716	0.002558185	9696	20	100%
1953	9279	0.002407851	9263	16	100%
1954	8614	0.002163937	8596	18	100%
1955	7949	0.001979786	7930	19	100%
1956	7731	0.001875074	7709	22	99%
1957	7382	0.001756723	7362	20	99%
1958	6781	0.001640338	6751	30	99%
1959	6455	0.001552432	6439	16	100%
1960	5849	0.001408103	5831	18	99%
1961	5733	0.001384013	5724	9	100%
1962	5181	0.001283897	5158	23	99%
1963	4903	0.001238694	4886	17	99%
1964	4465	0.001148522	4450	15	99%
1965	3815	0.001052283	3799	16	99%
1966	3286	0.000945433	3271	15	99%
1967	2924	0.000861293	2911	13	99%
1968	2591	0.000766928	2581	10	99%
1969	2441	0.000702381	2428	13	99%
1970	2382	0.000660472	2368	14	99%
1971	2204	0.000642125	2190	14	99%
1972	1908	0.000607064	1895	13	99%
1973	1732	0.000574102	1725	7	99%
1974	1843	0.00060625	1833	10	99%
1975	1805	0.000597802	1791	14	98%
1976	1606	0.000529282	1598	8	99%
1977	1604	0.000504959	1596	8	99%
1978	1496	0.000471349	1486	10	99%
1979	1455	0.000437331	1443	12	98%
1980	1568	0.000455218	1554	14	98%
1981	1581	0.000457019	1572	9	99%
1982	1466	0.000417906	1449	17	98%
1983	1366	0.000394417	1349	17	98%
1984	1226	0.000351415	1210	16	97%
1985	1240	0.000347426	1221	19	97%
1986	1163	0.000326954	1153	10	98%
1987	1153	0.000319779	1143	10	98%
1988	1154	0.00031231	1138	16	97%
1989	1269	0.000330086	1249	20	97%
1990	1283	0.000324606	1267	16	98%
1991	1139	0.000292406	1132	7	99%
1992	1156	0.000300942	1146	10	98%
1993	1065	0.000282472	1058	7	99%
1994	962	0.000258765	954	8	98%
1995	939	0.000256406	928	11	98%
1996	881	0.000241555	881		100%
1997	863	0.00023802	863		100%
1998	779	0.000211788	779		100%
1999	742	0.000200874	742		100%
2000	787	0.000208206	787		100%
2001	759	0.000202757	759		100%
2002	718	0.000192066	718		100%
2003	638	0.000167792	638		100%
2004	601	0.000157292	601		100%
2005	599	0.000155793	599		100%
2006	583	0.000147364	583		100%
2007	530	0.000132577	530		100%
2008	504	0.000128223	504		100%
2009	450	0.000117796	450		100%
2010	410	0.000110939	410		100%
2011	374	0.000102247	374		100%
2012	392	0.000107181	392		100%
2013	344	0.000094359	344		100%
2014	383	0.000103335	383		100%
2015	367	0.000099165	367		100%
2016	396	0.00010794	396		100%
2017	376	0.00010514	376		100%
2018	349	0.000099263	349		100%
2019	348	0.000100261	348		100%
2020	354	0.00010597	354		100%
2021	394	0.000116295	394		100%
2022	405	0.000119711	405		100%
2023	436	0.000131674	436		100%
2024	431	0.000129488	431		100%

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