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Marigold: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 498 in 2025. Its best rank was #590 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Marigold in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#590 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Marigold: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 498 girls in 2025. Peak: #590 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 498 (2025).
In 2025, 498 US girls were named Marigold, making it the 590th most common girls’ name of the year, up 100 places from #690 in 2024. That is 87 more than the 411 girls named Marigold in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #590, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 498. For comparison, it was #2,674 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marigold in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 2,978 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,121 babies named Marigold.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,680 US girls were named Marigold; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 498. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marigold ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #121 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 17 | #121 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #245 | — |
| South Carolina | 15 | #343 | — |
| Virginia | 24 | #343 | — |
| Tennessee | 24 | #343 | — |
| Arkansas | 9 | #358 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #367 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #420 | — |
| Colorado | 13 | #449 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #489 | — |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #506 | — |
| Michigan | 16 | #513 | — |
| Utah | 8 | #519 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #550 | — |
| Ohio | 19 | #552 | — |
| North Carolina | 20 | #554 | — |
| Illinois | 18 | #559 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #589 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #599 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #601 | — |
| California | 51 | #626 | #2,429 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #657 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #719 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #734 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #777 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #785 | — |
| Texas | 37 | #814 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #824 | — |
| New York | 19 | #848 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #904 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #1,038 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 498 | #590 | — | — |
| 2024 | 411 | #690 | — | — |
| 2023 | 397 | #713 | — | — |
| 2022 | 340 | #826 | — | — |
| 2021 | 252 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2020 | 223 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 2019 | 177 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 2015 | 67 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,726 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,975 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,828 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,283 | — | — |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,049 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,782 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,825 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,572 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,052 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,398 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,966 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,942 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,879 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,227 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,074 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,253 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,622 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,996 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,287 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,584 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,812 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,315 | — | — |
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).