Meaning not yet researched.
Mari: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 129 in 2025. Its best rank was #464 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #464 in 1954; #1,620 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Mari in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,620 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #464.
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Mari: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 129 girls in 2025. Peak: #464 in 1954 · most girls in one year: 412 (1957).
In 2025, 129 US girls were named Mari, making it the 1,620th most common girls’ name of the year, down 103 places from #1,517 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 143 girls named Mari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #464, reached in 1954. The most girls given the name in a single year was 412, in 1957. For comparison, it was #2,185 in 2015 and #552 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mari in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 5 babies. In all, 16,645 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,175 babies named Mari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,260 US girls were named Mari; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,459 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mari ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #801 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mary (4,156,654 babies since 1880), Maria (570,389 babies since 1880), Marie (542,270 babies since 1880) and Meri (2,502 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mahari, Mayari and Mayuri are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Breton, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Seediq, Swedish and Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mahari (727), Mayari (276), Mayuri (174), Mayori (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #801 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #873 | — |
| California | 27 | #1,013 | #2,118 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,346 | #1,217 |
| New York | 9 | #1,475 | #1,712 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,535 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,546 | #1,585 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,626 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,620 | 6 | #11,510 |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,517 | 8 | #9,546 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,435 | 13 | #6,762 |
| 2022 | 150 | #1,471 | 7 | #10,472 |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,522 | 10 | #7,947 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,848 | 7 | #10,353 |
| 2017 | 120 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 2015 | 87 | #2,185 | 5 | #13,322 |
| 2014 | 99 | #2,005 | 5 | #13,327 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 2009 | 143 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,412 | 5 | #12,643 |
| 2004 | 167 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2003 | 149 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 2002 | 157 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 2001 | 163 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2000 | 146 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1999 | 165 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1998 | 170 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1997 | 169 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1996 | 173 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1995 | 188 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1994 | 185 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1993 | 149 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1992 | 184 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1991 | 173 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1990 | 203 | #937 | — | — |
| 1989 | 198 | #917 | — | — |
| 1988 | 199 | #887 | — | — |
| 1987 | 161 | #981 | — | — |
| 1986 | 164 | #965 | — | — |
| 1985 | 163 | #956 | — | — |
| 1984 | 173 | #876 | — | — |
| 1983 | 179 | #855 | — | — |
| 1982 | 204 | #793 | — | — |
| 1981 | 200 | #804 | — | — |
| 1980 | 176 | #874 | — | — |
| 1979 | 180 | #862 | — | — |
| 1978 | 135 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1977 | 136 | #996 | — | — |
| 1976 | 138 | #935 | — | — |
| 1975 | 153 | #874 | — | — |
| 1974 | 179 | #774 | — | — |
| 1973 | 190 | #739 | — | — |
| 1972 | 185 | #755 | — | — |
| 1971 | 210 | #724 | — | — |
| 1970 | 226 | #695 | — | — |
| 1969 | 218 | #673 | — | — |
| 1968 | 236 | #628 | — | — |
| 1967 | 274 | #575 | — | — |
| 1966 | 257 | #590 | — | — |
| 1965 | 303 | #546 | — | — |
| 1964 | 339 | #534 | — | — |
| 1963 | 329 | #534 | — | — |
| 1962 | 346 | #524 | — | — |
| 1961 | 347 | #522 | — | — |
| 1960 | 341 | #524 | — | — |
| 1959 | 343 | #526 | — | — |
| 1958 | 344 | #524 | — | — |
| 1957 | 412 | #467 | — | — |
| 1956 | 361 | #493 | — | — |
| 1955 | 343 | #494 | — | — |
| 1954 | 361 | #464 | — | — |
| 1953 | 317 | #487 | — | — |
| 1952 | 245 | #548 | — | — |
| 1951 | 223 | #576 | — | — |
| 1950 | 226 | #552 | — | — |
| 1949 | 163 | #653 | — | — |
| 1948 | 163 | #653 | — | — |
| 1947 | 132 | #746 | — | — |
| 1946 | 122 | #738 | — | — |
| 1945 | 90 | #797 | — | — |
| 1944 | 94 | #789 | — | — |
| 1943 | 87 | #835 | — | — |
| 1942 | 63 | #990 | — | — |
| 1941 | 60 | #953 | — | — |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1939 | 55 | #955 | — | — |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1936 | 44 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,326 | — | — |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,707 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).