Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Slavic.
How it developed
Marketa is used as a form of Margaret.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marketa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 673
- 0 boys · 673 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 44 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 44 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 905 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marketa’s family of names
Marketa is a form of Margaret. Marketa has a related form in Markita. Marketa has a related form in Marquetta.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Markievariant
- Marquettavariant
- Marquetavariant
- Markitavariant
- Markiavariant
- Markeetavariant
- Markeevariant
- Markedavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marketa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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