Mari
#1,611 for girls in 2025, 129 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1954 · 361 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,579since 1897
Mari over time
Rank among girls' names. Mari has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #1,611 | 129 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,509 | 143 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #1,430 | 156 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #1,468 | 150 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #1,516 | 139 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #1,991 | 94 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,789 | 114 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,840 | 110 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #1,752 | 120 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,908 | 105 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,169 | 87 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,997 | 99 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #1,834 | 110 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,690 | 124 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,661 | 128 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,678 | 126 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,572 | 143 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,774 | 124 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,570 | 144 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,403 | 161 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,406 | 152 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,278 | 167 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,358 | 149 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,258 | 157 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,235 | 163 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,305 | 146 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,174 | 165 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,125 | 170 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,110 | 169 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,071 | 173 | — | |
| 1995 | #998 | 188 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,004 | 185 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,174 | 149 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,021 | 184 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,051 | 173 | — | |
| 1990 | #935 | 203 | — | |
| 1989 | #915 | 198 | — | |
| 1988 | #885 | 199 | — | |
| 1987 | #980 | 161 | — | |
| 1986 | #958 | 164 | — | |
| 1985 | #950 | 163 | — | |
| 1984 | #875 | 173 | — | |
| 1983 | #854 | 179 | — | |
| 1982 | #791 | 204 | — | |
| 1981 | #804 | 200 | — | |
| 1980 | #871 | 176 | — | |
| 1979 | #862 | 180 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,006 | 135 | — | |
| 1977 | #995 | 136 | — | |
| 1976 | #932 | 138 | — | |
| 1975 | #873 | 153 | — | |
| 1974 | #772 | 179 | — | |
| 1973 | #736 | 190 | — | |
| 1972 | #753 | 185 | — | |
| 1971 | #722 | 210 | — | |
| 1970 | #692 | 226 | — | |
| 1969 | #673 | 218 | — | |
| 1968 | #625 | 236 | — | |
| 1967 | #572 | 274 | — | |
| 1966 | #590 | 257 | — | |
| 1965 | #544 | 303 | — | |
| 1964 | #534 | 339 | — | |
| 1963 | #534 | 329 | — | |
| 1962 | #524 | 346 | — | |
| 1961 | #522 | 347 | — | |
| 1960 | #524 | 341 | — | |
| 1959 | #524 | 343 | — | |
| 1958 | #523 | 344 | — | |
| 1957 | #466 | 412 | — | |
| 1956 | #493 | 361 | — | |
| 1955 | #492 | 343 | — | |
| 1954 | #464 | 361 | — | |
| 1953 | #487 | 317 | — | |
| 1952 | #547 | 245 | — | |
| 1951 | #574 | 223 | — | |
| 1950 | #551 | 226 | — | |
| 1949 | #650 | 163 | — | |
| 1948 | #652 | 163 | — | |
| 1947 | #745 | 132 | — | |
| 1946 | #732 | 122 | — | |
| 1945 | #790 | 90 | — | |
| 1944 | #787 | 94 | — | |
| 1943 | #832 | 87 | — | |
| 1942 | #987 | 63 | — | |
| 1941 | #948 | 60 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,150 | 40 | — | |
| 1939 | #953 | 55 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,127 | 41 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,234 | 34 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,053 | 44 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,244 | 33 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,236 | 33 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,470 | 25 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,686 | 21 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,661 | 23 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,825 | 20 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,738 | 23 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,169 | 17 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,667 | 25 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,946 | 20 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,612 | 28 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,264 | 16 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,536 | 29 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,988 | 20 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,816 | 22 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,063 | 17 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,887 | 20 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,204 | 15 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,246 | 14 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,526 | 11 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,125 | 11 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 | — | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
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| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 | — | |
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | #1,555 | 5 | — | |
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Mari! It came in at #1,555, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1897–1912, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Mari
- 102 spots since 2024 (#1,509 → #1,611)
- 380 spots since 2020 (#1,991 → #1,611)
- 558 spots since 2015 (#2,169 → #1,611)
- Biggest jump: 202 spots in 1941 (#1,150 → #948)
- Biggest drop: 197 spots in 1940 (#953 → #1,150)
- Debuted 1897
- Peaked 1954 at #464 (361 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 51 yrs · run 1941–1977
- Highest: 1 in 4,963 girls born in 1957 were named Mari (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,459 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #464 in 1954, was only 1 in 5,379 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.2% of all girls named Mari (3,175) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,555 (1897) | #1,555 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,792 (1903) | #1,792 |
| 1910s | 95 | #1,887 (1918) | #2,227 |
| 1920s | 220 | #1,536 (1922) | #1,856 |
| 1930s | 327 | #953 (1939) | #1,354 |
| 1940s | 1,014 | #650 (1949) | #827 |
| 1950s | 3,175 | #464 (1954) | #512 |
| 1960s | 2,990 | #522 (1961) | #564 |
| 1970s | 1,732 | #692 (1970) | #834 |
| 1980s | 1,817 | #791 (1982) | #888 |
| 1990s | 1,759 | #935 (1990) | #1,066 |
| 2000s | 1,506 | #1,235 (2001) | #1,416 |
| 2010s | 1,123 | #1,661 (2011) | #1,832 |
| 2020s | 811 | #1,430 (2023) | #1,588 |
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.
Mari in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 11,330 of them was named Mari, which outranked 91.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,505Emmalynn144
- #1,505Tabitha144
- #1,505Valley144
- #1,509Mari143
- #1,509Alannah143
- #1,509Anaia143
- #1,509Calla143
- #1,520Hafsa142
- #1,520Julieth142
- #1,520Leora142
Tied with 10 names at #1,509; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 215,361 of them was named Mari, which outranked 37.1% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).