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Marketta

Girls' name

Pearl, through Margareeta

Marketta has been given to 865 babies in the U.S. since 1943. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Marketta, 2008

1 in 655,000

Marketta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marketta: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margareeta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marketta means

Marketta belongs to the name family reached through Marketta → Margareeta. Its meaning is “pearl”.

Origin, language, and formation

Marketta is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margareeta.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Marketta is pronounced /ˈmɑrketːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 865 girls were recorded with the name Marketta between 1943 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1985; its best national rank was #2,242 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marketta?

Marketta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marketta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marketta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Markettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marketta was born before 1981 — so the typical Marketta is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
859
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (300).

Is Marketta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (46)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,242
1985

Spellings of Marketta

Marketta is not the most common spelling — Marietta is, with 39.4% against Marketta's 2.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marketta is used

Across 1910–2025, Marketta was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 942,640 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3Mississippi1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marketta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marketta around the world

Where Marketta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marketta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,242
1985
Peak year
1985
46 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
865
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marketta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MaryettaMargrettaMarettaMarquittaMarvettaMarlettaMarzettaMarittaMariettaMarquettaMarriettaMarkittaMarlaynaMargarettaMargeauxMaryellaMarnettaMarilenaMaryjeanMarcilleMarlainaMarguettaMarionnaMarvella

Sibling names for Marketta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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