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How popular is the name Martha?
Births per year, rank history and how many Marthas are alive today.
Martha (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 164th in 2025 with 302 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1904, when around 1,000 babies were given the name, the 64th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2015, with 868 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 214 in 1996 before climbing back to the 164th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 58,000 babies have been named Martha in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Martha you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Marthas born in England and Wales are between 15 and 69, and there are at least 35,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly an 11% chance that at least one of them will be called Martha.
How many babies are named Martha each year?
Where does Martha rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Martha most popular?
Martha peaked in 1904, when around 1,000 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Martha?
At least 35,000 people named Martha born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Martha?
Most living Marthas are between 15 and 69; the most common age is about 11.
Is Martha becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.