Marie
Feminine · “not established”
Marie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 540,077 girls against 2,193 boys since 1880. See Marie as a boy name
Two women have done more than anyone else to attach ideas to this name, and one of them is remembered for a sentence she never said. The other won two Nobel prizes in two different sciences and remains the only person ever to have done it.
How old is the name Marie?
Marie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Marie alive today was born around 1927, making them about 98 years old. About 186,000 people named Marie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marie most popular?
Marie peaked in 1901, reaching #7 nationally. Today it ranks #617, 610 places below that high. See the whole 1901 chart.
Where it comes from
From Miriam to Marie
The story of Marie
The line about cake was not hers. It appears in a book by Rousseau written when the future queen was a child in Vienna, attributed there to an unnamed great princess, and it was decades old before anyone connected it to her. It stuck because it was useful: a régime being dismantled needs a figure who can be shown as monstrously oblivious, and a foreign queen was the obvious candidate. The other Marie was Polish, was refused a university place at home because she was a woman, took her degrees in Paris, and won the physics prize with her husband and the chemistry prize alone eight years later. She is the only person with prizes in two separate sciences, and she died of the radiation she discovered.
Meaningscholars disagree
not established
The name behind this one has attracted more proposed meanings than almost any other — bitterness, beloved, rebellion, a drop of the sea — and none of them can be secured. It may not be Hebrew in origin at all. Honest pages say so and stop.
How the name formed
- Miriam
- Maria
- Marie
Related forms: Marie · Marie · Marie · Maria · Miriam
Pronouncing Marie
muh-REE
Two syllables with the weight at the back in French and in American use alike. German and Czech front the stress instead, saying MAH-ree-eh.
Nicknames for Marie
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 191812,589 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #7reached in 1901
- Change vs 2022
- −5.4%474 in 2025, from 501
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.
Marie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marie in French — same name
- Marie in German — same name
- Marie in Czech — same name
- Maria in Italian — same name
- Miriam in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Maries among us
people named Marie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 3,391 born in 2025 was named Marie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Marie has held the top-100 across 8 different decades — it has never depended on fashion, and names like that read the same at any age.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Marie is headed
Marie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Marie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is recognized in essentially every European language without alteration.
- It is short, soft and completely settled in sound.
- It has been in continuous use for as long as records exist anywhere.
- No meaning can honestly be given, whatever other pages assert.
- It is extremely common as a middle name, which colors how it is read as a first one.
- The record holds a few boys as well, and the boy is much the smaller side.
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Feminine · #617 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Maries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 186,000 people named Marie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marie in 2025?
- Marie ranks #617 among US girl names in 2025, with 474 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marie?
- About 1 in every 3,391 US girls born in 2025 was named Marie — 474 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marie with classmates?
- Marie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Marie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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