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 | — | |
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| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 | — | |
| 1902 | — | — | ||
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| 1897 | #1,555 | 5 | — | |
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| 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.
Where Mari is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#731 · 1 in 3,580
- Washington#811 · 1 in 4,123
- California#997 · 1 in 5,990
- Michigan#1,210 · 1 in 7,146
- Pennsylvania#1,392 · 1 in 9,338
Best ever in a state: #90 in Hawaii, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #731 | 6 | 1 in 3,580 |
| Washington | #811 | 7 | 1 in 4,123 |
| California | #997 | 27 | 1 in 5,990 |
| Michigan | #1,210 | 5 | 1 in 7,146 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,392 | 5 | 1 in 9,338 |
| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
| New York | #1,418 | 9 | 1 in 8,703 |
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 12,459 of them was named Mari, which outranked 90.7% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,605Nariyah130
- #1,605Serene130
- #1,605Zamora130
- #1,611Mari129
- #1,611Aavya129
- #1,611Asma129
- #1,611Elly129
- #1,622Cristina128
- #1,622Eris128
- #1,622Estela128
Tied with 10 names at #1,611; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 284,679 of them was named Mari, which outranked 23.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #9,714Zyn7
- #9,714Zyonn7
- #9,714Zyree7
- #10,695Mari6
- #10,695Aadhyan6
- #10,695Aadish6
- #10,695Aamari6
- #12,008Aadan5
- #12,008Aadhavan5
- #12,008Aalam5
Tied with 1,312 names at #10,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.