Marta (given name)

Marta

Gender	female
Origin
Word/name	Akkadian, Hebrew, Roman
Meaning	Akkadian: "the daughter"; Hebrew: "the lady"; Roman: "dedicated to Mars"

Marta is a female given name derived from the Aramaic (Judæo-Aramaic) name מַרְתָּא Martâ, which translates as "the lady" in English. It had the male form "Martinus" in Roman culture. It has been described as a cognate of Martha.

The name Marta should not be confused with the similar-looking Swedish name Märta, which derives from the Greek name Margaret and means "pearl".

People with the given name

• Marta Abba (1900–1988), Italian stage actress
• Marta Acosta, American fiction novelist
• Marta Andrino (born 1987), Portuguese actress
• Marta Balletbò-Coll (born 1960), Catalan actress and film director
• Marta Bunge, Argentine-Canadian mathematician
• Marta Camps Arbestain, New Zealand soil scientist
• Marta Cartabia (born 1963), Italian judge
• Marta Civil, American mathematics educator
• Marta Damkowski (1911–1979), German activist and politician
• Marta Domachowska (born 1986), Polish tennis player
• Marta Domingo (born 1935), Mexican soprano and opera director
• Marta Domínguez (born 1975), Spanish track and field runner
• Marta Drpa (born 1989), Serbian volleyball player
• Marta Eggerth (1912–2013), Hungarian singer and actress
• Márta Fábián (born 1946), Hungarian musician
• Marta Fascina (born 1990), Italian politician
• Marta Ferri (born 1984), Italian fashion designer
• Marta Fitzgerald, former spouse of Rush Limbaugh
• Marta Hidy (1927–2010), Hungarian-Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
• Marta Jandová (born 1974), Czech musician
• Márta Károlyi (born 1942), Romanian gymnastics coach
• Marta Kauffman (born 1956), American writer and TV producer
• Marta Kristen (born 1945), Norwegian-born American actress; (Lost In Space)
• Marta Laan (born 1985), Estonian actress
• Márta Lacza (born 1946), Hungarian graphic artist and portrait painter
• Marta Marrero (born 1983), Spanish former tennis player
• Marta Menegatti (born 1990), Italian beach volleyball player
• Marta Míguez (born 1973), Spanish former javelin thrower
• Marta Peterson, musician in the band Bleeding Through
• Marta Rădulescu (1912–1959), Romanian novelist
• Marta Rosique (born 1996), Catalan politician
• Marta Sánchez (born 1966), Spanish pop singer
• Márta Sebestyén (born 1957), Hungarian folk singer
• Marta (footballer), Marta Vieira da Silva, (born 1986), Brazilian women's football player
• Marta Suplicy (born 1945), Brazilian politician and psychologist
• 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

Fictional characters

• Marta Estrella, from the television show Arrested Development
• Marta von Trapp, a character from The Sound of Music

• Marta Cabrerra, from the 2019 movie Knives Out