Martie

Where Martie comes from

The dictionaries list Martie as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #993
    6 babies named Martie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1927
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Martie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.