The story in the numbers

539,595 girls have been named Marie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 12,743 births — 1.1% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 461 births in 2024, against 12,743 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 78 of them in the top 100 and 20 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,193 boys have also been given it, 0.40% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

By decade

Decade

girls named Marie

8,490

25,853

37,091

92,086

110,564

65,803

57,521

49,266

34,808

18,113

16,542

9,823

6,149

5,095

2,391

In 1920, its biggest year

Marie was the 13th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.

Names that rose and fell with Marie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.