Marye

Where Marye comes from

The dictionaries list Marye as a given name — a female given name, variant of Mary — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,338 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1909
    Peak, #1,052
    15 babies named Marye — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,296.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Mary.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Marye hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.