Mari

Where Mari comes from

The dictionaries list Mari as a given name — a female given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1897
    First appearance
    #1,555 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #464
    361 babies named Mari — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1968
    Mari Kiviniemi born
    Finnish politician
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #772.
  5. 1988
    Mari Kawamura born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Mari Kiviniemi · Finnish politician, born 1968
  • Mari Kawamura · Japanese association football player, born 1988
  • Mari Boine · Northern Sámi singer from Norway, born 1956
  • Mari Emmanuel · Iraqi-born Australian Christian cleric, born 1970
  • Mari Kalkun · Estonian singer-songwriter and musician, born 1986

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.