Martha
317
Babies in 2024
-61%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 868
-28%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Martha
Martha has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 317 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 61% on a decade earlier.
Martha reached its peak in 2015, when 868 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #67 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 37% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 15,116 girls have been officially registered with the name Martha in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 6,399 girls were registered with the name, starting from 807 in 2014 and ending at 317 in 2024.