Marit
About 800 American babies have been named Marit since 1947, most of them around 2017. In 2025 it ranked 7,491st. About 770 Marits are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marit
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 800
- Estimated living today
- 770
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 5,821st
- Rank in 2025
- 7,491st
- First recorded
- 1947
How old the living Marits are
born that year still alive today
Of the 800 babies given the name since 1947, about 770 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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.
Notable Marits
- Marit Bjørgen (born 1980)Norwegian female cross-country skier
- Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway (born 1973)wife of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway
- Marit Larsen (born 1983)Norwegian singer and songwriter
- Marit Malm Frafjord (born 1985)Norwegian female handball player
- Marit Bouwmeester (born 1988)Dutch yacht racer
- Marit Paulsen (1939–2022)Norwegian-born Swedish politician
- Marit Røsberg Jacobsen (born 1994)Norwegian handball player
- Marit van Eupen (born 1969)Dutch rower
People named Marit with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marit is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marit is most concentrated in Minnesota (50.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular girls’ names the year Marit peaked:
Marit elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Marit | 22,053 | 5th |
| Belgium girls | Marit | 738 | 183rd |
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.
Marit: rank by region
In 2025, Marit was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Marit | 584 | 8 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marit appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (245th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Marit by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 548th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Marit 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 girls | Marit | 8,808 | 11,651 |
| Finland girls | Marit +1 spelling | 298 | 552 |
| the Netherlands boys | Marit | — | 8 |
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.
Related names
Marit 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.