Marthajane
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marthajane has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1922, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Marthajane, 1949
1 in 697,000
Marthajane over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Marthajane?
Marthajane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1949, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1949
- 1 in 697,000
- 5 of 3,484,085 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1949
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 482,998 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marthajane sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1949 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 482,998 children born in 1949 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marthajane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marthajanes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marthajane was born before 1945 — so the typical Marthajane is around 80 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 62.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Marthajane 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 1922 (6)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Marthajane around the world
Where Marthajane 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.
- England & Wales2018–2018#5,666in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Marthajane by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marthajane
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marthajane
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.