Mardi
Feminine · “Tuesday”
Mardi is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 868 girls against 6 boys since 1880.
Mardi is the French word for Tuesday, and Tuesday is named after a god of war in both languages — the same god twice, once in Latin and once in Norse.
How old is the name Mardi?
Mardi first appears in US birth records in 1941 — 84 years ago. The typical Mardi alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 800 people named Mardi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mardi most popular?
Mardi peaked in 1952, reaching #1713 nationally. See the whole 1952 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Mardi
The days of the week are the oldest surviving piece of Roman religion in everyday European speech, and northern Europe translated rather than borrowed them: Mars became Tiw, Mercury became Woden, Jupiter became Thor, Venus became Frigg. That is why the French and English names for Tuesday through Friday match god for god without sharing a single letter. The name's other association is a feast: the Tuesday before the fast, the last day for using up fat and eggs before six weeks without them, which is why it is called fat — and why the celebration exists at all. The party is the direct consequence of the fast that follows it.
Meaning
Tuesday
The French word comes from the Latin for Mars's day. English arrived at the same meaning by a different road: Tuesday is named for Tiw, a Germanic war god whom the Romans identified with Mars. The two languages translated each other's gods and ended up naming the same day after the same idea.
Pronouncing Mardi
MAR-dee
Two syllables, stress at the front in American English. French stresses the second syllable lightly.
Nicknames for Mardi
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
- 1941
- Most girls named
- 195634 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1713reached in 1952
- Change vs 2004
- +40.0%7 in 2009, from 5
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.
Mardi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mardi in French — same name
Mardis among us
people named Mardi 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
Mardi 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
- It is short, crisp and read correctly on sight.
- The meaning is transparent to anyone with any French at all.
- It works for either child.
- Americans will hear the festival before the day of the week.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
- It is a common noun in French, which French speakers will notice.
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- How many Mardis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Mardi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mardi in 2025?
- Mardi is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Mardi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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