Marta is the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, and Scandinavian form of Martha — from the Aramaic martā ("lady, mistress of the house"). Marta Vieira da Silva (born 1986) — Brazilian footballer widely regarded as the greatest women's footballer of all time; six-time FIFA Best Women's Player of the Year (2006-2010, 2018) — a record across either gender. All-time top scorer in FIFA Women's World Cup history with 17 goals across six tournaments (2003-2023); the only footballer of any gender to have scored at five different World Cups. Six-time Brazilian Footballer of the Year; Olympic silver (2004, 2008). Globally known by mononym "Marta". A top-100 baby name continuously in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Poland; rare in the US.
Featured throughout 2000s-2020s football.
Marta does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marta reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.