Martyn
477 NZ births on record
Where Martyn stands
477NZ births · 1950–2025
Martyn has been registered 477 times in New Zealand since 1950. It did not clear the 10-birth reporting floor in 2025, so the DIA published no figure for it that year.
Its moment was 1972, when 29 babies were given it. In 1 of the years between, the name fell under the 10-birth floor and the registrar published nothing — those years are the marks along the base of the chart, not gaps in the name's use.
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
How Martyn's 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. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
- 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.
- The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
- A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Martyn was under the floor in 1 year of its NZ record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000 reporting floor (share) = 10 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
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. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. 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
Martyn in England & Wales
In England and Wales, Martyn was registered 24 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2024 with 7 births. It did not clear the ONS reporting floor of 3 in 2025.
Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.
SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | below floor | <5 |
| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1940 | below floor | <5 |
| 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 | <5 |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.
Questions about Martyn
How popular is the name Martyn?
Martyn did not clear the 10-birth reporting floor in 2025, so no figure was published for it that year. Its best NZ rank was #158 in 1960.
When was Martyn most popular?
Martyn peaked in 1972, when 29 babies in New Zealand were given the name.
Is Martyn rising or falling?
Measured as a share of all boys' births, Martyn has been steady between 2009 and 2024.
Names that had their moment when Martyn did
Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1956, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026
