Boy

Marius

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,555
52 boys
2015
#2,220
rank
1950
#2,165
rank

Marius: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #964 in 1881.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #964 in 1881; #2,555 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marius in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,555 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #964.

Babies in 2025
52
Since 1880
2,654
Years on record
105

Babies named Marius, every year since 1880

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Boys

Marius: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 boys in 2025. Peak: #964 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 80 (2004).

About the name Marius

In 2025, 52 US boys were named Marius, making it the 2,555th most common boys’ name of the year, down 120 places from #2,435 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 57 boys named Marius in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #964, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 80, in 2004. For comparison, it was #2,220 in 2015 and #2,165 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Marius in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 2,654 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 613 babies named Marius.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 576 US boys were named Marius; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,848 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Marius ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,198 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mario (152,403 babies since 1880) and Maris (2,903 babies since 1880).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Marius in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Marius by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Virginia5#1,198—
California6#2,368#2,175
Texas5#2,816—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——52#2,555
2024——57#2,435
2023——33#3,526
2022——50#2,664
2021——58#2,364
2020——65#2,160
2019——59#2,328
2018——67#2,112
2017——67#2,081
2016——68#2,078
2015——61#2,220
2014——47#2,605
2013——69#2,003
2012——58#2,253
2011——60#2,191
2010——57#2,280
2009——64#2,133
2008——74#1,944
2007——68#2,047
2006——57#2,238
2005——69#1,863
2004——80#1,623
2003——79#1,604
2002——50#2,142
2001——28#3,196
2000——30#2,965
1999——25#3,248
1998——24#3,260
1997——34#2,427
1996——27#2,804
1995——32#2,429
1994——19#3,544
1993——21#3,208
1992——25#2,789
1991——24#2,796
1990——26#2,590
1989——18#3,283
1988——15#3,461
1987——15#3,288
1986——17#2,965
1985——17#2,905
1984——22#2,340
1983——18#2,632
1982——16#2,924
1981——21#2,385
1980——23#2,260
1979——23#2,208
1978——28#1,853
1977——24#2,040
1976——36#1,524
1975——18#2,411
1974——22#2,028
1973——18#2,286
1972——33#1,494
1971——22#1,963
1970——25#1,775
1969——13#2,502
1968——5#4,520
1967——9#2,905
1965——13#2,332
1964——8#3,185
1963——10#2,793
1962——16#2,091
1961——7#3,559
1960——8#3,243
1959——10#2,760
1958——9#2,954
1957——11#2,590
1956——8#3,112
1955——11#2,512
1954——11#2,549
1953——5#4,159
1952——6#3,601
1951——5#4,057
1950——13#2,165
1949——5#4,029
1944——5#3,736
1942——7#3,108
1941——7#3,034
1939——11#2,248
1937——10#2,420
1935——10#2,484
1933——9#2,662
1932——10#2,569
1931——8#3,009
1930——8#3,186
1928——12#2,478
1927——9#3,067
1926——6#4,025
1925——9#3,056
1924——8#3,407
1923——12#2,549
1922——8#3,437
1921——7#3,749
1920——11#2,707
1919——7#3,619
1918——14#2,232
1917——12#2,376
1916——10#2,666
1915——7#3,269
1914——8#2,570
1913——10#1,896
1912——11#1,587
1882——5#1,039
1881——5#964

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).