Marie

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Marie boys named Marie

By the numbers

Total US births

542,270

Estimated living today

179,000

Median age today

66

Peak year

1920

Best rank

13th

Rank in 2025

617th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

540,077 / 2,193

How old the living Maries are

born that year still alive today

Of the 542,270 babies given the name since 1880, about 179,000 are alive — 33 in every hundred. Roughly 9,000 of them are children and 95,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

The French Marie, equivalent of Mary; also an Early New English spelling of Mary, from Middle English Marie.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Maries

• Marie Curie (1867–1934)Polish-born French physicist and chemist
• Marie Antoinette (1755–1793)last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution
• Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928–2025)French politician
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916)Austrian writer
• Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (1791–1847)Empress Consort of the French from 1810 to 1814 and Monarch of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla from 1814 to 1847
• Marie de' Medici (1575–1642)Queen of France (1575-1642); second wife of King Henry IV of France
• Marie de France (1101–1300)medieval poet
• Marie Dressler (1868–1934)Canadian-American actress

People named Marie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Marie is most common

• NY67,092
• PA46,891
• IL24,963
• CA24,214
• NJ24,114
• MA20,935
• MI18,080
• OH18,026
• TX15,571
• LA13,215

Relative to how many babies each state records, Marie is most concentrated in Rhode Island (2.0×), Pennsylvania (1.9×), New Jersey (1.9×), New York (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1920

The most popular girls’ names the year Marie peaked:

• Mary
• Dorothy
• Helen
• Margaret
• Ruth
• Mildred

All the names of 1920

Marie elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Marie: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Marie is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.39% of children were given it – 57 of them.

Marie: rank by region

In 2025, Marie was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.

In 2024, Marie was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.

In 2024, Marie was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marie appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (14th), Province of East Flanders (20th), Province of Flemish Brabant (22nd), Province of West Flanders (24th), Province of Limburg (25th), Province of Liège (70th), Province of Hainaut (153rd) and Brussels-Capital Region (194th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Marie by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Marie among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among boys in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 47,443 who carry it, 296 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Marie lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 856 women called Marie were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Mary
• Mark
• Margaret
• Maria
• Martha
• Marilyn
• Martin
• Marjorie
• Marion
• Marvin
• Marcus
• Mario

Marie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Marie vs Mary
• Marie vs Mark
• Marie vs Margaret
• Marie vs Maria
• Marie vs Martha
• Marie vs Marilyn

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