Martha


Gender:
Origin: Arabic, Aramaic
864 famous people named Martha found on Wikipedia.
548697 female, 1991 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 797-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 14-th in year 1882
Used in: Biblical, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish

Meanings

A female given name: from an Aramaic word meaning “lady.”.

Martha is a feminine given name (Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα, from Aramaic מרתא (martā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מרי "master").
Variants in different languages:
Maata (Maori)
Марфа (Marfa) (Russian), formerly spelled "Марѳа" from the Greek version of the name, that the Russians assimilate in F
Márta (Hungarian)
Marta (Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish)
Марта (Marta) (Ukrainian)
Marthe (French, German)
Martta (Finnish)
Mártuska (Hungarian)
Moireach (Scottish Gaelic)
Morta (Lithuanian)
A traditional English language nickname was Patty.

Fem. proper name, from Aramaic (Semitic) Maretha, literally "lady, mistress," fem. of mar, mara "lord, master." As the type name of one concerned with domestic affairs, it is from Luke x.40-41. Martha's Vineyard discovered 1602 by English explorer Gabriel Archer and apparently named by him, but the identity of the Martha he had in mind is unknown now.

The lady, the mistress, master.

Famous People: 864 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Martha Plimpton 1970 American actress
2 Martha MacCallum 1964 News anchor
3 Martha Gellhorn 1908 Journalist from the United States
4 Martha Hunt 1989 American model
5 Martha Raddatz 1953 American newsmedia personality
6 Martha Wayne Fictional character, mother of Bruce Wayne (Batman)
7 Martha Graham 1894 American dancer and choreographer
8 Martha MacIsaac 1984 Actress
9 Martha Argerich 1941 Argentine pianist
10 Martha Jefferson Randolph 1772 Acting First Lady of the United States
11 Martha Nussbaum 1947 American philosopher
12 Martha Firestone Ford 1925 American football team owner
13 Martha Raye 1916 American comic actress and singer
14 Martha Hyer 1924 Actress
15 Martha Fiennes 1964 English film director, writer and producer
16 Martha Quinn 1959 American broadcaster
17 Martha Jefferson 1748 Firsty lady of Virginia
18 Martha Wainwright 1976 Canadian-American singer-songwriter
19 Martha Masters
20 Martha 0100 Biblical figure
21 Martha Wash 1953 Singer
22 Martha McSally 1966 US Air Force officer and member of the US House of Representatives
23 Martha Kelly American comedian
24 Martha Debayle 1967 Mexican businessperson
25 Martha Vickers 1925 American television and film actress
26 Martha Scott 1912 American actress
27 Martha Hart 1966 Canadian writer
28 Martha Higareda 1983 Mexican actress
29 Martha Roby 1976 American lawyer; Republican Congresswoman from Alabama
30 Martha Reeves 1941 Singer
31 Martha Coakley 1953 American lawyer, politician
32 Martha Bernays 1861 Wife of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
33 Martha Howe-Douglas English actress
34 Martha Bulloch Roosevelt 1835 Socialite and Mother of President Theodore Roosevelt
35 Martha MacKenzie
36 Martha Smith 1953 American model and actress
37 Martha Isabel Bolaños 1976 Colombian art model and Empresaria Group
38 Martha Dodd 1908 American spy for the Soviet Union
39 Martha Madison 1977 American actress
40 Martha Minow 1954 American legal scholar
41 Martha Beall Mitchell 1918 Wife of American politician
42 Martha Burns 1957 Canadian actress
43 Martha Bullock 1851 Pioneer
44 Martha Hackett 1961 American actress
45 Martha Kearney 1957 Irish journalist
46 Martha Tabram 1849 Whitechapel murder victim
47 Martha Ofelia Galindo 1931 Es de Cuto de la esperanza, México. Su nombre original era Angelita Calderón.
48 Martha Sharp 1905 American Righteous Among the Nations
49 Martha De Laurentiis 1954 American film producer
50 Martha Corey 1619 Convicted of being a witch during the 1692 Salem witch trials
51 Martha Rendell 1871 Australian murderer
52 Martha M. Place 1849 First woman to die in the electric chair
53 Martha Byrne 1969 Actress from the United States
54 Martha Lane Fox 1973 Businesswoman; peer of the House of Lords in the UK
55 Martha Coolidge 1946 Filmmaker, television director
56 Martha Layne Collins 1936 American businesswoman and politician
57 Martha Zavaleta
58 Martha Stewart 1922 American actress
59 Martha Rosler 1943 American artist
60 Martha Wentworth 1889 American actress
61 Martha Grimes 1931 American crime writer and literature professor
62 Martha Mansfield 1899 Actress
63 Martha Chase 1927 American biochemist
64 Martha Ann Johnson 1955 American serial killer
65 Martha Esther Rogers 1914 American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author
66 Martha Ladly Canadian musician
67 Martha Logan Character from the television series 24
68 Gwenette Martha 1974 Dutch criminal (1974-2014)
69 Martha Wise 1884 American murderer
70 Martha Ross 1939 British actress
71 Martha Munizzi 1968 American actress and singer
72 Martha Mackintosh
73 Martha Griffiths 1912 American politician
74 Martha Karua 1957 Politician
75 Martha Washington
76 Martha E. Pollack 1958 American computer scientist
77 Martha Julia 1973 Mexican actress
78 Martha Mason 1937 American writer
79 Martha Gehman American actress
80 Martha Ellen Young Truman 1852 Mother of United States president Harry S. Truman.
81 Martha Tilton 1915 American singer
82 Martha Vasconcellos 1948 Brazilian model
83 Martha Christina Tiahahu 1800 Indonesian freedom fighter
84 Martha Parke Custis Peter 1777 American socialite
85 Martha Picanes 1947 Cuban actor
86 Martha Cooper 1943 American photographer
87 Martha Rivers Ingram 1935 Chairman, Ingram Industries
88 Martha Fries 2000 German actress
89 Martha Chen 1944 American academic
90 Martha Ballard 1735 American midwife, healer and diarist
91 Martha O'Driscoll 1922 American actress, dancer, socialite
92 Martha Chapa 1946 Mexican painter
93 Martha Foley 1897 American writer
94 Martha Matilda Harper 1857 Canadian entrenpeneur
95 Martha Cope British actress
96 Martha Kane
97 Martha Johnson 1950 Canadian singer
98 Martha Coffin Wright 1806 American activist
99 Martha Roth 1930 Mexican actor, television actor and film actor
100 Martha Stout American psychologist
101 Martha Cecilia 1953 Filipino writer
102 Martha Schwartz 1950 American landscape architect
103 Martha Heredia 1991 Female vocalist from the Dominican Republic
104 Martha Tilston British singer
105 Martha Needle 1864 Australian murderer
106 Martha Williamson 1955 American television producer
107 Martha Rountree 1911 Pioneering broadcast journalist, on radio and television
108 Martha Figueroa Benza 1951
109 Martha Coston 1826 American inventor
110 Martha Mellinger 1956 Brazilian actress
111 Martha Amelia Pelloni 1941 Argentinian nun
112 Martha Hall Findlay 1959 Lawyer, businesswoman and politician
113 Martha Goldstein 1919 American harpsichordist and pianist
114 Martha Salazar 1970 American boxer
115 Martha Sabrina 1991 Mexican television actor
116 Martha Wright 1926 American actress and singer
117 Martha Alles Argentinian writer
118 Martha Redbone American musician
119 Martha Carrier 1650
120 Martha Piper Canadian academic
121 Martha Marek 1904
122 Martha Ray 1742 British singer
123 Martha Wells 1964 American writer
124 Martha Valdés 1928
125 Martha Carson 1921 American musician
126 Martha Mears 1910 American actress and singer
127 Martha Vogeler 1879
128 Martha Sleeper 1910 Actress
129 Martha Holgado 1934
130 Martha Kent Fictional adoptive mother of Superman
131 Martha Mier 1936 American musician
132 Martha Root 1872 Travelling teacher of the Bahá'í Faith in the late 19th and early 20th century
133 Martha Henry 1938 American-born Canadian actress
134 Martha Burk 1941 American feminist
135 Martha Craig Daughtrey 1942 United States federal judge
136 Martha Graciela
137 Martha Hughes Cannon 1857 American politician
138 Martha Black 1866 Canadian politician
139 Martha High 1945 American singer
140 Martha Pabón 1958
141 Martha Sharp Joukowsky American archaeologist
142 Martha Spurrier 1986
143 Martha Lloyd 1772 English collector of recipes
144 Martha Olivo 1920
145 Martha Finnemore 1959 American academic
146 Martha Montaner 1955
147 Martha Mitchell Television director
148 Martha Laurens Ramsay 1759 Diarist and letter writer
149 Martha Davis 1917 American singer
150 Martha Veléz 1945 American singer-actor
151 Martha Fuller Clark 1942 American politician
152 Martha Blount 1690 Friend of Alexander Pope
153 Martha Beck 1920 US serial killer
154 Martha Jean Steinberg 1930 American radio personality
155 Martha Fineman 1943 American legal scholar, feminist studies scholar
156 Martha Rainville 1958 Former Vermont Adjutant General/politician
157 Martha Clarke 1944 American theater director and choreographer
158 Martha Peterson 1945
159 Martha Frahm 1894
160 Martha Osorio 2000 Actriz Colombiana
161 Martha Josey 1938 Barrel racer
162 Martha Rogers American author and customer strategist
163 Martha Fenech 1991 Maltese model
164 Martha Mödl 1912 German opera singer
165 Martha N. Johnson 1953 American human resources executive; former GSA administrator
166 Martha Gunn 1726 British dipper
167 Martha Harris 1994
168 Martha Mijares 1938 Mexican actor and film actor
169 Martha Finley 1828 Children's writer, novelist, teacher
170 Martha Schad 1939 German writer
171 Martha Maxwell 1831 American naturalist, artist and taxidermist
172 Martha Boswell 1905 American musician
173 Paul Martha 1942 American football player
174 Martha Long 1950 Writer
175 Martha Mariana Castro 1966 Mexican actress
176 Martha Hill 1900 American dance instructor
177 Martha McClintock 1947 American psychologist
178 Martha Lucía Zamora 1960
179 Martha Issová 1981 Czech actress
180 Martha Ankomah Ghanaian actress
181 Martha Crenshaw 1945 Expert in terrorism studies
182 Martha Müller-Grählert 1876 Author
183 Martha Huber Fictional character
184 Martha Vázquez 1953 United States federal judge
185 Martha Wong 1939 American politician
186 Martha Wilson 1947 American artist
187 Martha Rose Shulman American cookbook writer
188 Martha Rofheart 1917 American actress and writer
189 Martha Rocha 1936 Brazilian model
190 Martha Hildebrandt 1925 Peruvian politician and linguist
191 Martha Mattox 1879 American film actress
192 Martha Nix Wade 1967 American actress
193 Martha Norelius 1909 American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder
194 Martha Villalobos 1962 Female professional wrestler
195 Martha Tagle Martínez 1973 Mexican politician
196 Martha Shelley 1943 American feminist
197 Martha Salotti 1899 Argentinian writer
198 Martha Farmer Brewer 1928 First Lady of Alabama
199 Martha Dewachter 1919 Belgian actress
200 Martha Broissier Feigned demonic possession