Marta is a female

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...

derived from the Aramaic name ܡܳܪܬܳܐ (''Mârtâ'', in

Syriac script The Syriac alphabet ( ) is a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language since the 1st century AD. It is one of the Semitic abjads descending from the Aramaic alphabet through the Palmyrene alphabet, and shares similarities with ...

, ''מָרְתָא'' in

Hebrew script The Hebrew alphabet ( he, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish ...

), which translates as "the lady" in English. It had the male form " Martinus" in

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. It has been described as a cognate of

Martha Martha (Hebrew: מָרְתָא‎) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to ...

.Marta
at Behind the Name The name Marta should not be confused with the similar-looking Swedish name

Märta Märta is a Swedish feminine given name. The name is often a diminutive of Margareta. Individuals bearing the name Märta include: * Märta of Denmark (1277–1341), Queen consort of Sweden * Märta Adlerz (1897–1979), Swedish diver *Märta A ...

, which derives from the Greek name

Margaret Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular througho ...

and means "pearl".

People with the given name

Marta Abba Marta Abba (25, June 1900 – 24 June 1988) was an Italian actress, was considered as the muse of the playwright Luigi Pirandello. Life and career Abba was born in Milan, and was the sister of another actress, Cele Abba. At the age of fou ...

(1900–1988), Italian stage actress * Marta Acosta, American fiction novelist * Marta Andrino (born 1987), Portuguese actress *

Marta Balletbò-Coll Marta Balletbò-Coll (born 1960, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Catalan actress, film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. Biography Balletbò-Coll earned a degree in analytical chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry of the ...

(born 1960), Spanish actress and film director *

Marta Bassino Marta Bassino (born 27 February 1996) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. She competes in all disciplines, with a focus in giant slalom, in which she has won 6 World Cup races. Biography Born in Cuneo, Piedmont, she lives in Borgo San ...

(born 1996), Italian alpine skier *

Marta Batinović Marta Batinović (; born 20 April 1990) is a Croatian-born Montenegrin female handball player who plays as a goalkeeper for SCM Gloria Buzău and the Montenegrin national team. International honours *EHF Champions League The Men's EHF Champi ...

(born 1990), Croatian-Montenegrin handball player * Marta Bunge, Argentine-Canadian mathematician * Marta Camps Arbestain, New Zealand soil scientist *

Marta Cartabia Marta Cartabia (; born 14 May 1963) is an Italian jurist and academic who served as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Cartabia previously was Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy between 2011 and 2020, ...

(born 1963), Italian judge *

Marta Civil Marta Civil is an American mathematics educator. Her research involves understanding the cultural background of minority schoolchildren, particularly Hispanic and Latina/o students in the Southwestern United States, and using that understanding ...

, American mathematics educator * Marta Crawford, Portuguese psychologist and author * Marta Damkowski (1911–1979), German activist and politician *

Marta Domachowska Marta Domachowska (; born 16 January 1986) is a former tennis player from Poland. She was ranked world No. 37 in singles (2006) and No. 62 in doubles (2006), and reached 2008 Australian Open fourth round in singles and won 2006 Canberra Intern ...

(born 1986), Polish tennis player *

Marta Domingo Marta Domingo (née Ornelas, born 1935) is a Mexican opera soprano, stage director and designer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she performed as a lyric soprano in Mexico and Israel. Since the 1990s, she has directed operas in Europe and North America. Sh ...

(born 1935), Mexican soprano and opera director *

Marta Domínguez Marta Domínguez Azpeleta (born 3 November 1975) is a Spanish former runner and politician. She competes mainly in the steeplechase. She has represented Spain four times at the Olympics and has competed at the World Championships on six occasio ...

(born 1975), Spanish track and field runner * Marta Drpa (born 1989), Serbian volleyball player *

Marta Eggerth Marta Eggerth (17 April 1912 – 26 December 2013) was a Hungarian actress and singer from "The Silver Age of Operetta". Many of the 20th century's most famous operetta composers, including Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Str ...

(1912–2013), Hungarian singer and actress *

Márta Fábián Márta Fábián (born 1946 in Budapest) is a Hungarian cimbalom player and soloist. Early life and education Fábián began playing at the age of 8. Since 1956 she has been a member of the Broadcast Children Choir. She received a diploma at t ...

(born 1946), Hungarian musician *

Marta Fascina Marta Fascina (born 9 January 1990) is an Italian politician from Forza Italia. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since the 2018 Italian general election. Early life and education She was born in Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabr ...

(born 1990), Italian politician *

Marta Ferri Marta Ferri Borromeo (born 21 July 1984) is an Italian fashion designer. By marriage she is a member of the House of Borromeo, an Italian noble family. Early life Ferri was born on 21 July 1984 in Milan, Italy. She is the daughter of Barbara F ...

(born 1984), Italian fashion designer *

Marta Fitzgerald Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( ; January 12, 1951 – February 17, 2021) was an American conservative political commentator who was the host of '' The Rush Limbaugh Show'', which first aired in 1984 and was nationally syndicated on AM and FM r ...

, former spouse of Rush Limbaugh * Marta García 1949–2017, Cuban ballerina *

Marta Hidy Marta Iren Hidy (January 11, 1927 - November 4, 2010) was a Hungarian Canadians, Hungarian Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher. In addition to being an accomplished musician, she was a founding member of the music program at McMaster ...

(1927–2010), Hungarian-Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher *

Marta Jandová Marta Verner (née Jandová; born 13 April 1974) is a Czech singer, best known for being the lead singer of the German alternative rock band Die Happy. She Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, represented the Czech Republic in the ...

(born 1974), Czech musician *

Márta Károlyi Márta Károlyi (; ; born August 29, 1942) is a Hungarian-American gymnastics coach and the former national team coordinator for USA Gymnastics. She and her husband, Béla, are ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania, Romania, who trained athletes ...

(born 1942), Romanian gymnastics coach *

Marta Kauffman Marta Fran Kauffman (born September 21, 1956) is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the co-creator of the NBC sitcom ''Friends'' with her longtime friend, David Crane. Both Kauffman and Crane were also executive pr ...

(born 1956), American writer and TV producer *

Marta Kostyuk Marta Olehivna Kostyuk ( uk, Марта Олегівна Костюк; born 28 June 2002) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has career-high rankings of 49 in singles, achieved on 14 February 2022, and world No. 39 in doubles, reached on 19 Septem ...

(born 2002), Ukrainian tennis player *

Marta Kristen Marta Kristen is a Norwegian-born American actress. Kristen is best known for her role as Judy Robinson, the oldest child of Professor John Robinson and his wife, Maureen, in the television series ''Lost in Space'' (1965–1968). Her character w ...

(born 1945), Norwegian-born American actress; (''Lost In Space'') *

Marta Laan Marta Laan (born 20 May 1985) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actress whose career began in the late 2000s. Early life and education Marta Laan was born and raised in Tallinn, where she attended primary and secondary schools. In 2006 ...

(born 1985), Estonian actress *

Márta Lacza Márta Lacza (born December 2, 1946) is a Hungarian graphic artist and portrait painter. She has one brother Jozsef Lacza who lives in Canada Toronto with his son Peter Anthony Lacza. She was born in the Csepel district of Budapest in 1946. In 19 ...

(born 1946), Hungarian graphic artist and portrait painter *

Marta Marrero Marta Marrero (born 16 January 1983), a Spanish former professional tennis player, is a professional padel player. In tennis, she reached the quarterfinals of the French Open, won two WTA doubles titles, and also a total of 14 ITF singles an ...

(born 1983), Spanish former tennis player *

Marta Menegatti Marta Menegatti (born 16 August 1990) is an Italian beach volleyball player who plays as a left-side defender with her partner Viktoria Orsi Toth. With former teammate Greta Cicolari, she achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 4 in August ...

(born 1990), Italian beach volleyball player * Marta Míguez (born 1973), Spanish former javelin thrower *

Marta Peterson Bleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. In 2004, ''Revolver'' magazine hailed Bleeding Through as one of eight bands ushering in the "Future of Metal" cover story, and ''Spin'' called Bleed ...

, musician in the band Bleeding Through * Marta Rădulescu (1912–1959), Romanian novelist * Marta Rosique (born 1996), Spanish politician *

Marta Roure Marta Roure i Besolí (born 16 January 1981) is an Andorran singer and actress. She represented Andorra in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with her song " Jugarem a estimar-nos", earning the eighteenth place in the semifinal. It was the first ...

(born 1981), Andorran singer and actress *

Marta Sánchez Marta Sánchez López (born 8 May 1966) is a Spanish singer. She has sold in excess of 10 million albums. Biography Marta was born in Madrid (Spain). Her father, Antonio Sánchez Camporro, was an Asturian opera singer. She began her musical ...

(born 1966), Spanish pop singer *

Márta Sebestyén Márta Sebestyén (; born 19 August 1957) is a Hungarian folk vocalist, composer and actress. Early life Sebestyén was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her mother is a composer, and was a music student of Zoltán Kodály. Her father was an economis ...

(born 1957), Hungarian folk singer *

Marta Segarra Marta Segarra Montaner (born October 25, 1963) is a Spanish philologist, university professor, and CNRS researcher who develops her work mainly in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, biopolitics and posthumanism, and cultural studies (l ...

(born 1963), Spanish philologist, university professor, and researcher * Marta Sillaots (1887–1969), Estonian writer, translator, and literary critic *

Marta (footballer) Marta Vieira da Silva (born 19 February 1986), known mononymously as Marta (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Brazil national team. Mar ...

, Marta Vieira da Silva, (born 1986), Brazilian women's football player *

Marta Suplicy Marta Teresa Smith de Vasconcellos Suplicy (; born 18 March 1945) is a Brazilian politician and psychologist. She was Mayor of São Paulo from 2001 to 2004. She later served as the Brazilian Minister of Tourism between 14 March 2007, and 4 Jun ...

(born 1945), Brazilian politician and psychologist * Marta Tomac (born 1990), Croatian-Norwegian handball player * Marta Tufet, British public health researcher * Marta Moreno Vega (born 1942), Puerto Rican scholar of Afro-Latino studies & African diaspora studies, researcher, and artist associated with

El Museo del Barrio El Museo del Barrio, often known simply as El Museo (the museum), is a museum at 1230 Fifth Avenue in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is located near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, immediately north of the Museum of the Cit ...

Fictional characters

Marta Estrella ''Arrested Development'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on the Fox network from November 2, 2003, to February 10, 2006. A fourth season of 15 episodes was released on Netflix on May 26, 2013. Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, ...

, from the television show ''Arrested Development''. * Marta von Trapp, a character from ''

The Sound of Music ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, '' The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. Se ...

''. *Marta Cabrerra, from the 2019 movie Knives Out. *Marta Trundel, a character from ''

iCarly ''iCarly'' is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider, which originally aired on Nickelodeon from September 8, 2007, to November 23, 2012. The series tells the story of Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove), a teenager who creates and hosts ...

''.

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