Boys' name · 1,043 recorded births
Martyn
477 NZ births on record
#158its best NZ rank, in 1960
1972peak year — 29 births
566US births since 1917
477NZ births since 1950
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Martyn in the United States
Between 2009 and 2024 the name has been steady.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Martyn in New Zealand
In New Zealand, Martyn has been registered 477 times since 1950, peaking in 1972 with 29 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | below floor | — |
| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1940 | below floor | — |
| 1950 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1960 | #2,210 | 14 |
| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 2010 | below floor | — |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026