Martrice
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Martrice has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1981, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.
Babies named Martrice, 1996
1 in 729,000
Martrice 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Martrice over time
In 1996, Martrice went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Martrice?
Martrice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Martrice sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Martrice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Martrices were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Martrice was born before 1985 — so the typical Martrice is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 123
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Martrice 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
- —
- 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 1981 (12)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.7% average annual change
Spellings of Martrice
Martrice is not the most common spelling — Patrice is, with 58.7% against Martrice's 0.21%.
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.
Martrice by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Martrice
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Martrice
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.