Marykate
Feminine · “Mary and Katherine”
Marykate is two of the most-used women's names in English history written as one — the Irish-American double name closed up, because a form offers a single box for a first name.
How old is the name Marykate?
Marykate first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Marykate alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 2,100 people named Marykate are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marykate most popular?
Marykate peaked in 1993, reaching #1763 nationally. Today it ranks #3459, 1,696 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mary Kate to Marykate
The story of Marykate
Double first names said as one unit are a long-standing habit in Irish-American and Southern American families — Mary Kate, Mary Beth, Mary Ellen. Both halves here are among the most-used women's names of the last thousand years. The habit of closing them into a single written word is recent and practical: databases offer one field, and a second word gets discarded or moved to the middle-name slot.
Meaningscholars disagree
Mary and Katherine
Mary is from Hebrew Miriam, whose meaning is genuinely unsettled. Katherine is from Greek Aikaterine, whose origin is also unknown; the connection to a word for pure is a later reinterpretation. Neither half has a settled meaning, which is unusual for two names this famous.
How the name formed
- Mary Kate
- Marykate
Related forms: Mary Kate · Máire Cáit
Pronouncing Marykate
MAIR-ee-KAYT
Three syllables with a stress on the first and the third. Said as two names run together, not as one word.
Nicknames for Marykate
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
- 1958
- Most girls named
- 199482 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1763reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- +41.9%44 in 2025, from 31
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.
Marykate in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mary Kate in English — same name
- Máire Cáit in Irish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois.
Marykates among us
people named Marykate are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 36,529 born in 2025 was named Marykate
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 Doria test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marykate's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Doria climbed just as high around 1909, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Doria's path sketches the road Marykate is walking now.
Marykate 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 Marykate is headed
Marykate looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Marykate beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marykate in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are among the most recognized women's names in the language.
- MK and Kate are both ready short forms.
- Written as one word, it survives forms that discard a second given name.
- Systems and teachers will split it back into Mary Kate or drop the second half.
- Nine letters in one field is awkward and the capital K is usually lost.
- Neither half has a settled meaning, which surprises people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marykates are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Marykate are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marykate in 2025?
- Marykate ranks #3459 among US girl names in 2025, with 44 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marykate?
- About 1 in every 36,529 US girls born in 2025 was named Marykate — 44 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marykate with classmates?
- Marykate will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Marykate
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