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Marie

Girls' name · Early 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~186,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#617 among girls
Births in 2025
474 542,270 since 1880
Typical age
67 years, median

Marie popularity over time

Marie rank by birth year, 1880–2025Marie ranked #55 in 1880 and #617 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #7, in 1901.#10#100#617best #7 in 190118901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1920: 12,774 births recorded as Marie. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Marie has spent 78 years inside the national top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #617, with 474 births that year. Year on year the rank improved by 15.

Babies named Marie per yearPeaks at 12,774 births in 1920.12,774 in 1920018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Marie?

An estimated 186,800 living Americans are called Marie. That is out of 542,270 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Marie?

The typical living Marie is 67 years old. The 1950s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Marie a early 20th-century perennial name.

Your Marie

Ages of living people named MarieHalf of living Maries are older than 67 and half younger.median 67020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Marie is most common

The name is concentrated in Louisiana, at 2.1× the national rate. Minnesota, New Mexico and Maryland follow.

Where Marie is used more than average5 states use the name Marie more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: 1.9× the national rateMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: 1.6× the national rateWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: 1.7× the national rateMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: 1.8× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: 2.1× the national rateLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Marie is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Louisiana 122 2.1×
Minnesota 131 1.9×
New Mexico 32 1.8×
Maryland 115 1.7×
Wisconsin 104 1.6×

Marie in England and Wales

ONS recorded 47 births named Marie in 2025, ranking it #778.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Marie comes from

The French Marie, equivalent of Mary; also an Early New English spelling of Mary, from Middle English Marie. Doublet of Mary.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Marie

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Marie Curie Polish-born French physicist and chemist 1867–1934 247
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer 1830–1916 70
Marie de' Medici Queen of France (1575-1642); second wife of King Henry IV of France 1575–1642 67
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné French noble and epistolarian writer 1626–1696 58
Marie de France medieval poet 1101–1300 58
Marie Dressler Canadian-American actress 1868–1934 56
Marie Tussaud French artist 1760–1850 55
Marie Taglioni Italian ballet dancer 1804–1884 53
Photo credits (8)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

How Marie is usually spelled

Spellings within one or two letters of each other, and how 2025 births divided between them.
SpellingBirths in 2025Share
Mary 2,230 82%
Marie this page 474 18%

Names similar to Marie

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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