Marta is a female given name derived from the Aramaic name ܡܳܪܬܳܐ (Mârtâ, in Syriac script, מָרְתָא in Hebrew script), 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.[1]
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 Adams (1891–1978) German-born painter, sculptor
- Marta Andrino (born 1987), Portuguese actress
- Marta Balletbò-Coll (born 1960), Spanish actress and film director
- Marta Bassino (born 1996), Italian alpine skier
- Marta Batinović (born 1990), Croatian-Montenegrin handball player
- Marta Bunge (1938–2022), Argentine-Canadian mathematician
- Marta Camps Arbestain, New Zealand soil scientist
- Marta Cartabia (born 1963), Italian judge
- Marta Cattani (born 1973), Italian basketball player
- Marta Civil, American mathematics educator
- Marta Crawford (born 1969), Portuguese psychologist and author
- 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 Francés Gómez (born 1995), Spanish paratriathlete
- Marta García, multiple people
- Marta García (dancer) 1949–2017, Cuban ballerina
- Marta García (runner) (born 1998), Spanish middle- and long-distance runner
- Marta Hidy (1927–2010), Hungarian-Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- Marta Israelowa (1905–c. 1967), German politician
- Marta Jandová (born 1974), Czech musician
- Márta Károlyi (born 1942), Romanian gymnastics coach
- Marta Kauffman (born 1956), American writer and TV producer
- Marta Kostyuk (born 2002), Ukrainian tennis player
- Marta Kristen (born 1945), Norwegian-born American actress; (Lost In Space)
- Márta Kurtág (1927–2019), Hungarian pianist and music pedagogue
- Marta Laan (born 1985), Estonian actress
- Márta Lacza (born 1946), Hungarian graphic artist and portrait painter
- Marta Maggetti (born 1996), Italian windsurfer
- 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 Pessarrodona (born 1941), Spanish writer
- Marta Peterson, musician in the band Bleeding Through
- Marta Rădulescu (1912–1959), Romanian novelist
- Marta Rosique (born 1996), Spanish politician
- Marta Roure (born 1981), Andorran singer and actress
- Marta Rzewuska-Frankowska (1889–1954), Polish anthropologist, educator
- Marta Sánchez (born 1966), Spanish pop singer
- Marta Sandal (1878–1930), Norwegian singer
- Márta Sebestyén (born 1957), Hungarian folk singer
- Marta Segarra (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 1986), Brazilian women's football player
- Marta Suplicy (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
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.
- Marta Trundel, a character from iCarly.