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Morten

Boys' name

Form of Martin

Morten has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1929, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Morten, 1934

1 in 346,000

Morten over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Morten: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Martin

Danish and Norwegian

What Morten means

Morten is a form of Martin.

Origin, language, and formation

Morten is used in English, Danish and Norwegian. Its origins include Danish and Norwegian.

Morten comes through Danish and.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Martin and Mårten.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Morten between 1914 and 1934. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1929; its best national rank was #3,160 in 1929.

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 Morten?

Morten had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1934
1 in 346,000
6 of 2,076,780 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1934
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
239,920 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Morten sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1934 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 239,920 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Morten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mortens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Morten was born before 1921 — so the typical Morten is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Morten 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1929 (8)
Years since peak
96
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,160
1929

Spellings of Morten

Morten is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 56.5% against Morten's <0.01%.

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.

Morten around the world

Where Morten 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 & Wales
    1997–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #210
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1965–1965
    #574
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Morten by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,160
1929
Peak year
1929
8 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1934
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Morten

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

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Sibling names for Morten

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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