Marrion
Masculine · “A spelling of Marion”
Marrion is given to both — 620 boys and 378 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Marrion is Marion with a doubled r, a spelling that leans to boys without settling there. Marion has been carried by an architect whose drawings helped win the design of a nation's capital, and by the greatest checkers player who ever lived.
How old is the name Marrion?
Marrion first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Marrion alive today was born around 1946, making them about 79 years old. About 300 people named Marrion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marrion most popular?
Marrion peaked in 1881, reaching #866 nationally. See the whole 1881 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marie to Marrion
The story of Marrion
Marion Mahony Griffin, one of the first women licensed as an architect in the United States, produced the luminous presentation drawings with which her husband, Walter Burley Griffin, won the international competition to design Canberra in 1912. Marion Tinsley, a mathematics professor from Ohio, was world checkers champion for most of four decades and lost only a handful of games in all that time; in the 1990s he played the computer program Chinook and was still ahead when illness forced him to stop. Marrion was used for boys and girls from the first American records.
Meaning
A spelling of Marion, a French pet form of Marie
Marion began as a French diminutive of Marie; in America it became a name for both sexes.
How the name formed
- Marie
- Marion
- Marrion
Related forms: Marion · Marian
Pronouncing Marrion
MAIR-ee-un
Three syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Marrion
Limited
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
- 1881
- Most boys named
- 192117 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #866reached in 1881
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%5 in 2024, 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.
Marrion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marion in French — spelling variant
- Marian in English — spelling variant
Marrions among us
people named Marrion 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
Marrion 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
- Sounds like Marion, a name everyone knows.
- Works for either child.
- Carries remarkable bearers.
- People will write Marion or Marian.
- It leans to boys but not decisively, so either child may be taken for the other.
- It reads as an older name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marrions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Marrion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marrion in 2025?
- Marrion is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Marrion with classmates?
- Marrion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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