Marie

What Marie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Marie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #560 in 2015 to #617 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Marie?

US: Falling: down from #560 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #923 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1899, when 3,156 girls got the name (#8 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,391 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,389 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in SD (1.64 per 1,000 girls), ID (0.84 per 1,000 girls), CO (0.77 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Marie is #617 in the US and #778 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Marie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maria2,887 US · 522 E&W
• Mariah693 US · 28 E&W
• Miari13 US
• Marea7 US
• Mariia0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Marie

Girls

• Deborah#862“bee”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Lisa#987“Locally Integrated Software Architecture”^*
• Jessie#823Diminutive of Jessica, possibly meaning “Iscah in Genesis 11:29…^*
• Rebecca#349“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Jamie#857Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1977, with 12,895 babies; 316 in 2025

For a brother

• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• Jeremy#292Form of Jeremiah, meaning “Yahweh exalt”^*
• Adam#101“earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• John#23possibly “God is gracious”^*
• Jon#951Variant of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Michael#21“who is like God?”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Marie’s. Rank is US 2025.