Marketta

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Finnish

Meaning

Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages.

From Wikipedia

Marketta first appears in the data in 1943 and has been recorded in 51 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1985 with 46 babies (rank #2,243 that year). It was not in the 2024 data.

Numerology of Marketta

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Marketta yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

865
Total babies (all years)
51
Years in the data
46
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19436#4,509
19515#5,925
195211#3,487
19536#5,439
19549#4,169
19557#5,030
195713#3,427
195812#3,670
19596#5,993
196012#3,842
196116#3,278
196212#3,934
196315#3,422
196416#3,328
196515#3,358
196610#4,373
196717#3,165
196812#4,138
196918#3,274
197016#3,809
197114#4,239
197217#3,656
197315#4,090
197412#4,904
197519#3,587
197617#3,896
197725#3,133
197822#3,453
197924#3,405
198029#3,044
198119#4,100
198220#3,969
198339#2,413
198434#2,708
198546#2,243
198628#3,239
198739#2,601
198827#3,545
198919#4,785
199027#3,864
199125#4,152
199224#4,331
199325#4,189
199415#6,204
19955#14,872
19968#10,175
19978#10,428
199810#9,025
19998#11,025
20045#17,831
20086#16,749