In 2025, 474 US girls were named Marie, making it the 618th most common girls’ name of the year, up 15 places from #633 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 467 girls named Marie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #7, reached in 1904. The most girls given the name in a single year was 12,743, in 1920. For comparison, it was #560 in 2015 and #72 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 471 babies with the name. In all, 542,270 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 110,955 babies named Marie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,851 US girls were named Marie; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 537. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,391 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marie ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #262 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), Mari (16,645 babies since 1880) and Marietta (15,055 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Martie, Maire and Mare are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mae and Mary.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.