Maryjane
Feminine · “God is gracious”
Maryjane runs two names together, and both are among the most-used in European history — Mary, whose meaning is unrecovered, and Jane, which is a Hebrew sentence.
How old is the name Maryjane?
Maryjane first appears in US birth records in 1889 — 136 years ago. The typical Maryjane alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 10,000 people named Maryjane are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maryjane most popular?
Maryjane peaked in 1923, reaching #462 nationally. Today it ranks #1833, 1,371 places below that high. See the whole 1923 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yochanan to Maryjane
The story of Maryjane
American families used compound first names heavily from the 1920s to the 1950s, particularly in the South, and Mary was the dominant front element. Mary Jane also names a style of flat strapped shoe, from a comic-strip character of 1902. The run-together Maryjane appears in the registers and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
God is gracious
A compound of Mary, whose origin is genuinely unrecovered, and Jane, through John from the Hebrew Yochanan — Yah, the divine name, and chanan, 'he was gracious'. The Jane half is settled; the Mary half is not. The joining is an American practice.
How the name formed
- Yochanan
- Mary Jane
- Maryjane
Related forms: Mary Jane · Maryjayne · María Juana
Pronouncing Maryjane
MAIR-ee-jayn
Three syllables, stress on the first. Maryjane and Mary Jane are said identically.
Nicknames for Maryjane
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
- 1889
- Most girls named
- 2007291 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #462reached in 1923
- Change vs 2022
- −32.7%109 in 2025, from 162
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.
Maryjane in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mary Jane in English — spelling variant
- Maryjayne in English — spelling variant
- María Juana in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Maryjanes among us
people named Maryjane are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,746 born in 2025 was named Maryjane
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Claudie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maryjane's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Claudie climbed just as high around 1900, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Claudie's path sketches the road Maryjane is walking now.
Maryjane sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Maryjane is headed
Maryjane 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.
Maryjane beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maryjane in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries two of the most-used names in European history in one word.
- MJ is a ready-made short form that most bearers use.
- It records a real and geographically specific American naming practice.
- The phrase is a well-known slang term for cannabis.
- A shoe style carries the name.
- It is period-coded to the middle of the twentieth century.
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Feminine · #1833 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Maryjanes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,000 people named Maryjane are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maryjane in 2025?
- Maryjane ranks #1833 among US girl names in 2025, with 109 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maryjane?
- About 1 in every 14,746 US girls born in 2025 was named Maryjane — 109 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maryjane with classmates?
- Maryjane will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Maryjane
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