Martel is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Martel in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Martel in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Martel by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Martel ranks at #4,962. That means there are 4,961 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Martel.
In fact, the name Martel hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Martel wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1983, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,043, 62 parents chose it in 1983 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Martel, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Martel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Martel a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 6,627, for a total of 10 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Martel seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Martel. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 476 Americans who bear this name. And these 476 men and boys named Martel live in no more than 8 different states, including for example Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois and Michigan. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Martel lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Martel and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Martel relative to its male population is Michigan. And even there, only one male in 48,018 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Martel.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Martel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Martel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Martel, you can simply say:
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Tiger
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Martel sounds like this:
