Meaning not yet researched.
Martel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,151 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,151 in 1983; #10,313 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Martel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,313 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #1,151.
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Martel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,151 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 72 (1991).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Martel, making it the 10,313th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,193 places from #8,120 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 10 boys named Martel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,151, reached in 1983. The most boys given the name in a single year was 72, in 1991. For comparison, it was #5,203 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Martel in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 1,706 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 501 babies named Martel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 134 US boys were named Martel; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Martell (2,666 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Martel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #10,313 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,120 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,680 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,105 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,554 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,503 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,634 |
| 2018 | — | — | 24 | #4,312 |
| 2017 | — | — | 23 | #4,417 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,696 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,203 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,184 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,366 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,634 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,586 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,070 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,378 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,220 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,592 |
| 2006 | — | — | 26 | #3,859 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,011 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,600 |
| 2003 | — | — | 19 | #4,371 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,154 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,289 |
| 2000 | — | — | 28 | #3,125 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,655 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,899 |
| 1997 | — | — | 36 | #2,332 |
| 1996 | — | — | 37 | #2,239 |
| 1995 | — | — | 54 | #1,675 |
| 1994 | — | — | 45 | #1,883 |
| 1993 | — | — | 63 | #1,485 |
| 1992 | — | — | 62 | #1,482 |
| 1991 | — | — | 72 | #1,332 |
| 1990 | — | — | 66 | #1,376 |
| 1989 | — | — | 71 | #1,301 |
| 1988 | — | — | 59 | #1,350 |
| 1987 | — | — | 56 | #1,333 |
| 1986 | — | — | 52 | #1,374 |
| 1985 | — | — | 65 | #1,165 |
| 1984 | — | — | 44 | #1,454 |
| 1983 | — | — | 62 | #1,151 |
| 1982 | — | — | 39 | #1,581 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,460 | 26 | #2,071 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,334 |
| 1979 | — | — | 17 | #2,735 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,875 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,513 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,192 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,830 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,056 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,249 | 8 | #3,938 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,500 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,919 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,823 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,988 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,020 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,443 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,784 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,415 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,209 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,399 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,467 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,283 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,558 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,329 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,986 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,029 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,142 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,715 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).