Marion
Marion is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 107 births. Its best rank was 42nd, in 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1070.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19246,047 births
- Best rank
- #42in 1922
- Since 1880
- 261,565people given the name
The story in the numbers
189,125 girls have been named Marion in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 6,047 births — 0.48% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 107 births in 2024, against 6,047 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 108 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 46 of them in the top 100.
Marion is used for both sexes: 28% of its bearers are boys (72,440), most of them born around 1921.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marion | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,109 | |
| 1890s | 7,310 | |
| 1900s | 11,713 | |
| 1910s | 37,974 | |
| 1920s | 55,178 | |
| 1930s | 29,566 | |
| 1940s | 18,490 | |
| 1950s | 11,883 | |
| 1960s | 6,212 | |
| 1970s | 2,563 | |
| 1980s | 1,761 | |
| 1990s | 1,315 | |
| 2000s | 1,141 | |
| 2010s | 1,324 | |
| 2020s | 586 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Marion was the 46th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Marion
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Irenepeak 1921
- Naomapeak 1924
- Ruthpeak 1920
- Helenpeak 1918
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Ermapeak 1920
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Myrticepeak 1918
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.