Marthe
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marthe is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Martinique it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French form of Martha, from Aramaic martha, 'lady'.
- MQMartinique1 in 437◐
- FRFrance1 in 552
- GPGuadeloupe1 in 599
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈131K ●
- Sources
- 241 ●
- 1 in 552 ◐
across 8 countries
69K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
French form of Martha, from Aramaic martha, 'lady'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #257 | 122,885△ | 59K rec. | 1 in 552 | 123K | Marthe | 241 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,371△ | 182 rec. | 1 in 1K | 19K | Marthe | 25 |
| BE Belgium | #745 | 2,565 | 2.7K rec. | — | 25 | Marthe | 51 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,648△ | 120 rec. | 1 in 10K | 1.6K | Marthe | 18 |
| MQ Martinique | #63 | 1,485 | 3 rec. | — | 5 | Marthe | 2 |
| CM Cameroon | #74 | 1,207 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Marthe | 25 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,121 | 1K rec. | — | 7 | Marthe | 63 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #122 | 1,035 | 6 rec. | — | 5 | Marthe | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,008 | 2.6K rec. | 1 in 330K | 1K | Marthe | 133 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #198 | 353 | 354 rec. | — | 2 | Marthe | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 161 | 127 rec. | — | listed | Marthe | 30 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 122 | 129 rec. | — | — | Marthe | 13 |
Roughly 123K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 552). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French456K90%
- Norwegian Bokmål19K4%
- English10K2%
- Dutch5.1K1%
- Norwegian3.4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 455,793 | 90% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 18,920 | 4% |
| English | 10,034 | 2% |
| Dutch | 5,094 | 1% |
| Norwegian | 3,382 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Marthe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, appears in the Gk New Testament as Martha (Aramaic Martial Masefield 35° Marta ‘Lady’), borne by the sister of Lazarus and Mary (of Bethany). Vars.: Ger.: Morthe, Merta. Cogns.: It.: Marte, Marti. Port.: Marta. Dims.: Fr.: Mart(h)on, Martot, Martel, Marthelot.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In French, appears in the Gk New Testament as Martha (Aramaic Marta ‘Lady’), borne by the sister of Lazarus and Mary
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In French, Martha (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, De l’araméen marta, «maîtresse, dame».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Arameen, «dame, maitresse de maison».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 10 |
| 1901 | 15 |
| 1902 | 15 |
| 1903 | 10 |
| 1904 | 10 |
| 1905 | 10 |
| 1906 | 15 |
| 1907 | 15 |
| 1908 | 10 |
| 1909 | 20 |
| 1910 | 10 |
| 1911 | 15 |
| 1912 | 10 |
| 1913 | 15 |
| 1914 | 10 |
| 1915 | 15 |
| 1916 | 10 |
| 1917 | 15 |
| 1918 | 15 |
| 1919 | 20 |
| 1920 | 25 |
| 1921 | 20 |
| 1922 | 10 |
| 1923 | 20 |
| 1924 | 20 |
| 1925 | 15 |
| 1926 | 20 |
| 1927 | 20 |
| 1928 | 15 |
| 1929 | 10 |
| 1930 | 15 |
| 1931 | 15 |
| 1932 | 15 |
| 1933 | 20 |
| 1934 | 30 |
| 1935 | 20 |
| 1936 | 20 |
| 1937 | 30 |
| 1938 | 25 |
| 1939 | 20 |
| 1940 | 20 |
| 1941 | 30 |
| 1942 | 25 |
| 1943 | 25 |
| 1944 | 25 |
| 1945 | 25 |
| 1946 | 25 |
| 1947 | 20 |
| 1948 | 35 |
| 1949 | 25 |
| 1950 | 25 |
| 1951 | 30 |
| 1952 | 20 |
| 1953 | 20 |
| 1954 | 25 |
| 1955 | 35 |
| 1956 | 30 |
| 1957 | 25 |
| 1958 | 45 |
| 1959 | 30 |
| 1960 | 25 |
| 1961 | 20 |
| 1962 | 20 |
| 1963 | 30 |
| 1964 | 30 |
| 1965 | 15 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 15 |
| 1968 | 15 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 15 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 10 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
MQ INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) — 77 years between 1900–1977. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marthe Bibescob. 1886RORomanian writer (1886-1973)
- Marthe Richardb. 1889FRFrench politician, prostitute and spy (1889-1982)
- Marthe Louise Vogtb. 1903DEGerman neuroscientist (1903–2003)
- Marthe Robertb. 1914FRFrench literary critic (1914–1996)
- Marthe Gautierb. 1925FRpaediatrician and discoverer of trisomy 21
- Marthe Villalongab. 1932FRFrench actress
- Marthe Kellerb. 1945CHSwiss actress
- Agnès Letestub. 1971FRnot in their usual nameFrench ballet dancer
- Frédérique Jossinetb. 1975FRnot in their usual nameFrench judoka (born 1975)
- Stéphanie Frappartb. 1983FRnot in their usual nameFrench football referee (born 1983)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 65 sources across 38 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 573 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marthe?
- We estimate roughly 131 thousand people bear Marthe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marthe have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 123 thousand people bear Marthe in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marthe.
- How common is Marthe compared with other names?
- In France, Marthe is the 257th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Marthe a male or female name?
- Marthe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Marthe mean?
- Recorded meaning: French form of Martha, from Aramaic martha, 'lady'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marthe” — the 257th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.