Marty
Boy name · 10 babies recorded · 1974–2025
Marty: 10 babies born in Scotland since 1974, given to boys, peaking at 4 births in 2017.
Marty began as a friendly, down-to-earth short form of Martin, itself from the Latin "Martinus," meaning "of Mars" – the Roman god of war, so the underlying sense is "warrior" or "warlike." The name shed its martial associations to become famously linked with the time-travelling teenager Marty McFly from the *Back to the Future* trilogy. On the musical side, country legend Marty Robbins brought a smooth, storytelling charm to the name. There is no major place named directly after Marty, though the name naturally shares roots with the many places called Saint-Martin across Europe. While Martin remains the formal version in Scotland, Marty has a distinctly American, laid-back feel, a notable contrast to the more formal original.
Boy 3 of 52 years
- Peak year
- 20174 babies
- Latest (2023)
- #7283 babies
- Total births
- 10since 2017
- 5-year trend
- ≈ stablevs prior 5y