In 2025, 20 US girls were named Marybeth, making it the 6,045th most common girls’ name of the year, up 793 places from #6,838 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 17 girls named Marybeth in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #442, reached in 1962. The most girls given the name in a single year was 488, in 1961. For comparison, it was #7,864 in 2015 and #854 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marybeth in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 10,260 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 3,801 babies named Marybeth.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 174 US girls were named Marybeth; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maribeth (6,098 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marabeth are summarised on this page.
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