Meaning not yet researched.
Mario: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 721 in 2025. Its best rank was #102 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #102 in 1980; #438 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mario in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#438 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #102.
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Mario: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 721 boys in 2025. Peak: #102 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 2,936 (1980).
In 2025, 721 US boys were named Mario, making it the 438th most common boys’ name of the year, down 40 places from #398 in 2024. That is 89 fewer than the 810 boys named Mario in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #102, reached in 1980. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,936. For comparison, it was #286 in 2015 and #246 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mario in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 7 babies. In all, 152,403 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 26,707 babies named Mario.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,507 US boys were named Mario; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,369 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mario ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #222 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marion (261,713 babies since 1880), Marlo (10,944 babies since 1880), Marius (2,654 babies since 1880) and Mary (4,156,654 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mariusz 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mariusz (80).
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 Mario in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 14 | #222 | #349 |
| Texas | 166 | #237 | #162 |
| Arizona | 31 | #261 | #167 |
| California | 139 | #266 | #177 |
| Illinois | 35 | #309 | #230 |
| Kansas | 10 | #374 | #349 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #406 | #387 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #426 | #343 |
| Oregon | 8 | #462 | #332 |
| Florida | 40 | #462 | #239 |
| Iowa | 7 | #479 | #544 |
| Washington | 15 | #490 | #360 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #508 | #482 |
| Alabama | 10 | #508 | #436 |
| Indiana | 13 | #531 | #529 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #536 | #364 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #558 | #660 |
| Colorado | 10 | #559 | #296 |
| Virginia | 12 | #613 | #457 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #624 | #340 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #647 | #513 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #649 | #483 |
| Georgia | 15 | #667 | #314 |
| Maryland | 7 | #671 | #292 |
| Michigan | 11 | #702 | #336 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #737 | #405 |
| Ohio | 12 | #741 | #585 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #752 | #392 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #758 | #276 |
| Missouri | 7 | #765 | #455 |
| New York | 18 | #789 | #355 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #891 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 721 | #438 |
| 2024 | — | — | 810 | #398 |
| 2023 | — | — | 791 | #404 |
| 2022 | — | — | 902 | #365 |
| 2021 | — | — | 937 | #348 |
| 2020 | — | — | 999 | #329 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,030 | #323 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,022 | #328 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,139 | #307 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,156 | #307 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,294 | #286 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,368 | #269 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,428 | #255 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,445 | #254 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,598 | #224 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,708 | #208 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,938 | #198 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,746 | 2,167 | #184 |
| 2007 | — | — | 2,291 | #180 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,019 | 2,295 | #178 |
| 2005 | — | — | 2,304 | #179 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,294 | 2,262 | #178 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,063 | 2,358 | #168 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,752 | 2,265 | #170 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,545 | 2,217 | #170 |
| 2000 | — | — | 2,333 | #167 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,191 | 2,288 | #163 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,502 | 2,261 | #151 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,521 | 2,295 | #152 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,170 | 2,377 | #147 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,894 | 2,391 | #149 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,889 | 2,466 | #142 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,485 | 2,470 | #138 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,627 | 2,627 | #128 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,427 | 2,575 | #127 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,185 | 2,823 | #119 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,451 | 2,843 | #116 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,132 | 2,893 | #106 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,420 | 2,738 | #108 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,704 | 2,476 | #112 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,299 | 2,416 | #117 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,480 | 2,348 | #116 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,033 | 2,373 | #115 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,224 | 2,660 | #109 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,307 | 2,713 | #109 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,517 | 2,936 | #102 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,771 | 2,702 | #103 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,612 | 2,230 | #114 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,592 | 2,121 | #129 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,701 | 2,028 | #130 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,491 | 2,059 | #125 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,589 | 2,062 | #128 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,332 | 2,018 | #129 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,561 | 1,927 | #138 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,844 | 1,904 | #154 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,747 | 1,898 | #159 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,885 | 1,630 | #170 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,518 | 1,357 | #186 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,929 | 1,310 | #187 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,481 | 1,290 | #190 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,868 | 1,289 | #197 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,537 | 1,359 | #204 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,139 | 1,321 | #213 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,706 | 1,312 | #211 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,924 | 1,297 | #216 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,353 | 1,326 | #211 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,952 | 1,205 | #227 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,767 | 1,190 | #219 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,701 | 1,152 | #224 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,703 | 1,208 | #214 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,319 | 1,075 | #219 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,521 | 1,073 | #213 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,606 | 996 | #215 |
| 1952 | — | — | 971 | #211 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,210 | 863 | #224 |
| 1950 | — | — | 746 | #246 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,744 | 606 | #268 |
| 1948 | — | — | 622 | #262 |
| 1947 | — | — | 500 | #308 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,268 | 383 | #330 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,997 | 345 | #320 |
| 1944 | — | — | 340 | #328 |
| 1943 | — | — | 331 | #337 |
| 1942 | — | — | 303 | #347 |
| 1941 | — | — | 270 | #357 |
| 1940 | — | — | 294 | #334 |
| 1939 | — | — | 238 | #369 |
| 1938 | — | — | 297 | #320 |
| 1937 | — | — | 271 | #330 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,990 | 294 | #311 |
| 1935 | — | — | 304 | #312 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,358 | 306 | #310 |
| 1933 | — | — | 318 | #297 |
| 1932 | — | — | 344 | #297 |
| 1931 | — | — | 393 | #279 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,370 | 449 | #265 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,029 | 443 | #265 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,353 | 477 | #259 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,204 | 492 | #259 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,141 | 518 | #248 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,499 | 501 | #253 |
| 1924 | — | — | 483 | #260 |
| 1923 | — | — | 504 | #251 |
| 1922 | — | — | 451 | #266 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,296 | 502 | #250 |
| 1920 | — | — | 408 | #276 |
| 1919 | — | — | 353 | #287 |
| 1918 | — | — | 351 | #292 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,410 | 359 | #267 |
| 1916 | — | — | 379 | #254 |
| 1915 | — | — | 354 | #255 |
| 1914 | — | — | 289 | #252 |
| 1913 | — | — | 166 | #312 |
| 1912 | — | — | 152 | #289 |
| 1911 | — | — | 56 | #376 |
| 1910 | — | — | 47 | #379 |
| 1909 | — | — | 27 | #500 |
| 1908 | — | — | 28 | #471 |
| 1907 | — | — | 20 | #551 |
| 1906 | — | — | 15 | #634 |
| 1905 | — | — | 14 | #655 |
| 1904 | — | — | 13 | #672 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,087 |
| 1902 | — | — | 10 | #777 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #1,018 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,432 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #903 |
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).