In 2025, 161 US girls were named Martina, making it the 1,371st most common girls’ name of the year, down 203 places from #1,168 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 206 girls named Martina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #534, reached in 1899. The most girls given the name in a single year was 335, in 1964. For comparison, it was #1,632 in 2015 and #839 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Martina in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 18,538 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,802 babies named Martina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,587 US girls were named Martina; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 206. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,983 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Martina ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #378 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Martha (553,732 babies since 1880), Marta (17,581 babies since 1880) and Martine (3,018 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marthena, Martena and Martiana are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Tina.
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