Dmarion
Masculine · “Built on Marion”
Dmarion is D'Marion with its apostrophe lost to the form, a twenty-first-century name built on Marion. For American boys Marion comes down from a Revolutionary hero who fought from the swamps, and it was carried by one of the men who opened professional football to Black players.
How old is the name Dmarion?
Dmarion first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Dmarion alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 600 people named Dmarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dmarion most popular?
Dmarion peaked in 2005, reaching #1691 nationally. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marie to Dmarion
The story of Dmarion
Francis Marion led a small band of South Carolina militia against the British from the swamps, earning the name Swamp Fox, and more than a dozen counties and many towns across the country are named after him; Marion became a familiar boy's name in the South because of it. In 1946 Marion Motley, a powerful fullback, joined the Cleveland Browns alongside Bill Willis, and the two helped end professional football's exclusion of Black players. Dmarion, with its D- front, belongs to the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Meaning
Built on Marion, with a D- front
Marion began as a French pet form of Marie; in America it became a boy's name through the surname of Francis Marion. The D- front adds sound rather than meaning.
How the name formed
- Marie
- Marion
- D'Marion
- Dmarion
Related forms: Marion · DeMarion
Pronouncing Dmarion
dee-MAIR-ee-un
Four syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Dmarion
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2000
- Most boys named
- 200579 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1691reached in 2005
- Change vs 2023
- −27.3%8 in 2024, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dmarion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marion in English — related form
- DeMarion in English — spelling variant
Dmarions among us
people named Dmarion are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Dmarion sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Built on Marion, a name with deep American roots.
- Distinctive and modern.
- Rare, so a Dmarion is unlikely to meet another.
- Many forms will not accept an apostrophe, so D'Marion and Dmarion will both appear.
- People may not know how to say the D-.
- Marion is now more often a girl's name elsewhere, which some families will want to know.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dmarions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Dmarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dmarion in 2025?
- Dmarion is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Dmarion with classmates?
- Dmarion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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