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Mario

Boys' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~130,600 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#438 among boys
Births in 2025
721 152,403 since 1880
Typical age
36 years, median

Mario popularity over time

Mario rank by birth year, 1897–2025Mario ranked #852 in 1897 and #438 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #102, in 1980.#100#1,000#438best #102 in 19801920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1897–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1980 is the peak year for Mario, with 2,974 births. The name does not appear in the data until 1897. It reaches the top 1,000 in 125 years of the record.

As of 2025 the name sits at #438, with 721 births that year. The ten-year change is -44%. Year on year the rank dropped by 40.

Babies named Mario per yearPeaks at 2,974 births in 1980.2,974 in 198001920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Mario?

An estimated 130,600 living Americans are called Mario. SSA has recorded 152,403 births under the name 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 Mario?

Median age among living Marios: 36. The 1980s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Mario a late 20th-century name.

Your Mario

Ages of living people named MarioHalf of living Marios are older than 36 and half younger.median 36020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Mario is most common

The name is concentrated in New Mexico, at 3.2× the national rate. Texas, Arizona and California follow.

Where Mario is used more than average5 states use the name Mario 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: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: 1.8× the national rateNVWyoming: 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: 1.9× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: 2.2× the national rateAZNew Mexico: 3.2× 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: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: 2.3× the national rateTXFlorida: 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 Mario is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New Mexico 109 3.2×
Texas 2,093 2.3×
Arizona 385 2.2×
California 1,919 1.9×
Nevada 108 1.8×

Mario in England and Wales

ONS recorded 37 births named Mario in 2025, ranking it #856. That is 53% lower than five years earlier.

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

Where the name Mario comes from

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Mario, both of which coming from Latin Marius.

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

Notable people named Mario

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Mario Vargas Llosa Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer 1936–2025 130
Mario Draghi Italian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy 1947 92
Mario Balotelli Italian association football player 1990 89
Mario Puzo American author, screenwriter, and journalist 1920–1999 87
Mario Monti Italian economist and politician (1943-) 1943 85
Mario Götze German association football player 1992 76
Mario Mandžukić Croatian association football player 1986 75
Mario Gómez German-Spanish association football player 1985 72
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Mario

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

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Mario was in 2025.

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