Mario
Mario reached its high-water mark in 1980 at number 102, and has been recorded 152,403 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 438th. About 129,000 Marios are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mario boys named Mario
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 152,403
- Estimated living today
- 129,000
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 102nd
- Rank in 2025
- 438th
- First recorded
- 1897
- Girls / boys
- 1,093 / 151,310
How old the living Marios are
born that year still alive today
Of the 152,403 babies given the name since 1897, about 129,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 22,000 of them are children and 11,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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 Italian, Spanish
and Spanish Mario, both of which coming from Latin Marius.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marios
- Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025)Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer
- Mario Draghi (born 1947)Italian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy
- Mario Balotelli (born 1990)Italian association football player
- Mario Puzo (1920–1999)American author, screenwriter, and journalist
- Mario Monti (born 1943)Italian economist and politician
- Mario Götze (born 1992)German association football player
- Mario Mandžukić (born 1986)Croatian association football player
- Mario Gómez (born 1985)German-Spanish association football player
People named Mario with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mario is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mario is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.9×), Arizona (2.7×), Texas (2.6×), California (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular boys’ names the year Mario peaked:
Mario elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Mario | 58,210 | 9th |
| Italy boys | Mario | 26,571 | — |
| France boys | Mario | 16,800 | 96th |
| Austria boys | Mario | 10,725 | 14th |
| England and Wales boys | Mario | 1,602 | 424th |
| Switzerland boys | Mario | 1,149 | 92nd |
| Norway boys | Mario | 640 | 248th |
| Belgium boys | Mario | 399 | 420th |
| Poland boys | Mario | 158 birth registrations | 194th |
| Ireland boys | Mario | 127 | 326th |
| Scotland boys | Mario | 90 | 222nd |
| France girls | Mario | 15 | 2,064th |
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.
Mario: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mario | 1,017 | 0.082% | 73rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mario | 93 | 0.021% | 227th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mario | 34 | 0.052% | 75th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Mario | 5 | 0.134% | 22nd |
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, Mario is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.32% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Mario: rank by region
In 2024, Mario was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mario | 632 | 8 |
In 2024, Mario was among the 10 most common names in 4 regions of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aragón | Mario | 10 | 59 |
| Cantabria | Mario | 4 | 33 |
| Extremadura | Mario | 10 | 65 |
| Región de Murcia | Mario | 4 | 115 |
In 2023, Mario was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Mario | 10 | 1 |
In 2023, Mario was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Mario | 237 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, 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.
Mario by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 25 | 291st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mario 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Mario | 4,245 | 6,541 |
| Finland boys | Mario | 114 | 297 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mario | 28 | 123 |
| Finland girls | Mario | 5 | 14 |
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 Mario lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 112,534 men called Mario were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valladolid | Mario | 2,322 | 9.022 | 29 |
| Cantabria | Mario | 2,576 | 8.961 | 27 |
| Palencia | Mario | 647 | 8.210 | 31 |
| Segovia | Mario | 644 | 8.109 | 31 |
| Toledo | Mario | 2,920 | 7.693 | 31 |
| Salamanca | Mario | 1,211 | 7.611 | 33 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mario against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.