Martell
Last seen for girls in 1987 at #11,325 · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 98.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1986 · 124 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,630since 1917
Martell over time
Rank among boys' names. Martell has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #7,194 | 11 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,469 | 13 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,517 | 13 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,019 | 19 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,338 | 17 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,980 | 14 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,337 | 23 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,354 | 23 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,312 | 34 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,524 | 31 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,591 | 30 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,715 | 43 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,115 | 36 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,434 | 31 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,787 | 43 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,847 | 42 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,286 | 34 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,313 | 33 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,578 | 46 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,701 | 40 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,887 | 35 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,366 | 27 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,632 | 36 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,931 | 31 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,196 | 45 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,098 | 45 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,791 | 56 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,060 | 43 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,725 | 54 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,527 | 62 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,564 | 59 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,358 | 71 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,221 | 85 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,046 | 106 | |
| 1990 | — | #963 | 117 | |
| 1989 | — | #997 | 105 | |
| 1988 | — | #943 | 104 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #921 | 105 |
| 1986 | — | #811 | 124 | |
| 1985 | — | #823 | 117 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #925 | 90 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #827 | 111 |
| 1982 | — | #1,082 | 71 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,270 | 22 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,729 | 17 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,659 | 13 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,973 | 11 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | #3,024 | 8 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
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| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
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| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | — | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Martell! It came in at #2,956, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Martell
- 725 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #7,194)
- 1,214 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #7,194)
- 3,603 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #7,194)
- Biggest jump: 255 spots in 1983 (#1,082 → #827)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 1987 (#811 → #921)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1986 at #811 (124 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1983–1990
- Highest: 1 in 14,851 boys born in 1986 were named Martell (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.9% of all boys named Martell (866) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | #2,956 (1917) | #3,568 |
| 1920s | 40 | #3,408 (1925) | #3,951 |
| 1930s | 39 | #2,629 (1936) | #3,495 |
| 1940s | 21 | #3,109 (1944) | #3,492 |
| 1950s | 31 | #3,024 (1957) | #3,488 |
| 1960s | 31 | #3,041 (1962) | #3,591 |
| 1970s | 108 | #2,509 (1970) | #3,288 |
| 1980s | 866 | #811 (1986) | #1,233 |
| 1990s | 698 | #963 (1990) | #1,535 |
| 2000s | 369 | #2,196 (2000) | #2,874 |
| 2010s | 327 | #2,715 (2013) | #3,447 |
| 2020s | 87 | #5,019 (2022) | #6,086 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Martell in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 336,763 of them was named Martell, which outranked 14.4% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,759 names at #10,422; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 20,054 of them was named Martell, which outranked 87.4% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).