In 2025, 44 US girls were named Marykate, making it the 3,501st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,033 places from #4,534 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 31 girls named Marykate in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,770, reached in 1993. The most girls given the name in a single year was 85, in 2001. For comparison, it was #6,633 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marykate in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 6 babies. In all, 2,189 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 668 babies named Marykate.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 278 US girls were named Marykate; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Marikate are summarised on this page.