Marnie

What Marnie means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1969, with 510 babies; 85 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Marnie?

US: Rising: up from #5653 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #168 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1969, when 510 girls got the name (#427 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 18,909 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 542 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 416 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 IA (0.51 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.23 per 1,000 girls), VA (0.15 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Marnie is #2173 in the US and #97 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 Marnie were girls.

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

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Marien6 US

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

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Marni

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Marnie

Girls

• Stevie#203Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #978 in 2015, #203 in 2025
• Blair#169“field, plain”^*
• Sylvia#300“forest”^*
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Wrenley#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*

For a brother

• Arthur#87possibly “bear”^*
• Wesley#52“west + wood, clearing”^*
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Warren#240“river, water”^*
• Walter#251“ruler + army, host”^*
• Malcolm#272Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Marnie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.