Meaning not yet researched.
Martell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #814 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #814 in 1986; #7,497 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Martell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,497 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #814.
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Martell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #814 in 1986 · most boys in one year: 124 (1986).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Martell, making it the 7,497th most common boys’ name of the year, down 805 places from #6,692 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 13 boys named Martell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #814, reached in 1986. That year also had the most boys given the name: 124. For comparison, it was #3,649 in 2015 and #4,011 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Martell in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 2,666 US babies have been given the name, 1.4% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 882 babies named Martell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 198 US boys were named Martell; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Martel (1,706 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Martelle, Marthel and Marthell are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Martelle (37), Marthel (17), Marthell (10), Martiel (5), Martile (5).
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 Martell 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,497 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,692 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,764 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,152 |
| 2021 | — | — | 17 | #5,478 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,176 |
| 2019 | — | — | 23 | #4,425 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,440 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,350 |
| 2016 | — | — | 31 | #3,576 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,649 |
| 2014 | — | — | 33 | #3,348 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,748 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,151 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,488 |
| 2010 | — | — | 43 | #2,817 |
| 2009 | — | — | 42 | #2,879 |
| 2008 | — | — | 34 | #3,321 |
| 2007 | — | — | 33 | #3,356 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,610 |
| 2005 | — | — | 40 | #2,739 |
| 2004 | — | — | 35 | #2,935 |
| 2003 | — | — | 27 | #3,417 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,665 |
| 2001 | — | — | 31 | #2,969 |
| 2000 | — | — | 45 | #2,212 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,126 |
| 1998 | — | — | 56 | #1,806 |
| 1997 | — | — | 43 | #2,082 |
| 1996 | — | — | 54 | #1,732 |
| 1995 | — | — | 62 | #1,543 |
| 1994 | — | — | 59 | #1,574 |
| 1993 | — | — | 71 | #1,375 |
| 1992 | — | — | 85 | #1,226 |
| 1991 | — | — | 106 | #1,051 |
| 1990 | — | — | 117 | #969 |
| 1989 | — | — | 105 | #999 |
| 1988 | — | — | 104 | #946 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,501 | 105 | #926 |
| 1986 | — | — | 124 | #814 |
| 1985 | — | — | 117 | #829 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,498 | 90 | #927 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,766 | 111 | #832 |
| 1982 | — | — | 71 | #1,086 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,306 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,803 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,290 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,534 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #4,046 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,248 | 11 | #3,401 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,617 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,481 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,606 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,762 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,090 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,588 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,342 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,442 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,416 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,210 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,918 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,482 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,170 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,284 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,743 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,011 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,001 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,330 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,772 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,850 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,778 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,976 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,009 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,974 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,134 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,857 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,518 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,618 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,596 | 6 | #4,170 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,646 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,717 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,166 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,106 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,297 | — | — |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,573 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,108 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,721 | — | — |
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).