Marketa
Markéta is a feminine Czech given name, equivalent to English Margaret. Notable people with the name include:Markéta Hajdu, Czech hammer thrower Markéta Irglová, Czech musician and actress Markéta Jánská, Czech model Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Czech former politician Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player Markéta Štroblová, Czech pornographic actress
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Meaning & Origin of Marketa
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Markéta is a feminine Czech given name, equivalent to English Margaret. Notable people with the name include:Markéta Hajdu, Czech hammer thrower Markéta Irglová, Czech musician and actress Markéta Jánská, Czech model Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Czech former politician Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player Markéta Štroblová, Czech pornographic actress
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Marketa
Marketa first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1954, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1984: 44 births, good for #2,227 nationwide. About 41% of every Marketa on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Marketa last appeared in the published SSA data in 2009, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 673 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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About the name Marketa
Marketa is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1954 and has accumulated 673 births in the dataset. Marketa's peak popularity came in 1984 when it ranked #2,227. Use the chart and map above to compare Marketa's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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