Mar
#1,703 for girls in 2025, 120 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 78.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 120 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 935since 1913
Mar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,703 | 120 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #2,466 | 72 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #3,073 | 53 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | — | |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | — | |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | — | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 | — | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | — | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #2,191 | 15 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,194 | 16 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | — | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,011 | 7 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | — | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | #2,821 | 5 |
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Mar! It came in at #3,187, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1914, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Mar
- 1,227 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #1,703)
- 3,964 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #1,703)
- 6,744 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #1,703)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2025 at #1,703 (120 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,394 girls born in 2025 were named Mar (0.01%)
- 37.2% of all girls named Mar (348) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1990, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 36 | #2,822 (1918) | #3,498 |
| 1920s | 79 | #2,191 (1929) | #3,739 |
| 1930s | 53 | #3,181 (1938) | #3,627 |
| 1940s | 56 | #2,986 (1942) | #3,584 |
| 1950s | 69 | #3,104 (1959) | #4,364 |
| 1960s | 36 | #4,982 (1967) | #6,091 |
| 1970s | 6 | #8,444 (1977) | #8,444 |
| 1980s | 9 | #6,955 (1985) | #6,955 |
| 1990s | 48 | #8,805 (1999) | #11,324 |
| 2000s | 100 | #7,733 (2007) | #10,676 |
| 2010s | 95 | #7,988 (2016) | #11,126 |
| 2020s | 348 | #1,703 (2025) | #3,467 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mar in 1913
Top girls' names in 1913
Top boys' names in 1913
More about 1913
girls
624,546 girls got a published name in 1913; 1 in 124,909 of them was named Mar, which outranked 14.0% of the 3,707 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 520 names at #3,187; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
512,566 boys got a published name in 1913; 1 in 102,513 of them was named Mar, which outranked 13.5% of the 3,261 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 440 names at #2,821; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.