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
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 120 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 935since 1913
Mar over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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| 1883 | — | — | ||
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1913
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.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 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)
Rise & fade · girls
112 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2025 at #1,703 (120 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,394
- Highest: 1 in 13,394 girls born in 2025 were named Mar (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 37.2% of all girls named Mar (348) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1991
- 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.
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