Marigold
#590 for girls in 2025, 498 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 498 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,978since 1918
Marigold over time
Rank among girls' names. Marigold has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #590 | 498 |
| 2024 | #689 | 411 |
| 2023 | #712 | 397 |
| 2022 | #822 | 340 |
| 2021 | #1,012 | 252 |
| 2020 | #1,093 | 223 |
| 2019 | #1,295 | 177 |
| 2018 | #1,413 | 158 |
| 2017 | #1,643 | 131 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 |
| 2015 | #2,646 | 67 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 |
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| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
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| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
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| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 |
| 1926 | #3,269 | 9 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marigold! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Marigold is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#373 · 1 in 1,371
- Nebraska#405 · 1 in 1,394
- Tennessee#419 · 1 in 1,753
- Missouri#444 · 1 in 1,807
- Colorado#446 · 1 in 1,802
Best ever in a state: #117 in Idaho, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #373 | 9 | 1 in 1,371 |
| Nebraska | #405 | 5 | 1 in 1,394 |
| Tennessee | #419 | 18 | 1 in 1,753 |
| Missouri | #444 | 13 | 1 in 1,807 |
| Colorado | #446 | 12 | 1 in 1,802 |
| Washington | #472 | 14 | 1 in 2,018 |
| South Carolina | #503 | 9 | 1 in 1,990 |
| Arizona | #550 | 12 | 1 in 2,339 |
| Alabama | #559 | 8 | 1 in 2,324 |
| Indiana | #563 | 12 | 1 in 2,319 |
| Arkansas | #567 | 5 | 1 in 2,083 |
| Utah | #585 | 6 | 1 in 2,695 |
| Michigan | #607 | 13 | 1 in 2,714 |
| Pennsylvania | #624 | 16 | 1 in 2,916 |
| North Carolina | #638 | 15 | 1 in 2,962 |
| Ohio | #643 | 15 | 1 in 3,131 |
| Massachusetts | #659 | 7 | 1 in 3,336 |
| Maryland | #676 | 7 | 1 in 2,985 |
| New Jersey | #681 | 11 | 1 in 3,233 |
| California | #735 | 43 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Minnesota | #744 | 6 | 1 in 3,492 |
| Georgia | #771 | 13 | 1 in 3,490 |
| Illinois | #828 | 11 | 1 in 4,050 |
| Wisconsin | #838 | 5 | 1 in 4,086 |
| Texas | #901 | 34 | 1 in 4,769 |
| Virginia | #929 | 7 | 1 in 4,745 |
| Florida | #1,159 | 12 | 1 in 7,089 |
| New York | #1,405 | 9 | 1 in 8,639 |
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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 Marigold
- 99 spots since 2024 (#689 → #590)
- 503 spots since 2020 (#1,093 → #590)
- 2,056 spots since 2015 (#2,646 → #590)
- Biggest jump: 190 spots in 2022 (#1,012 → #822)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2025 at #590 (498 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,227 girls born in 2025 were named Marigold (0.03%)
- 71.2% of all girls named Marigold (2,121) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 34 | #3,269 (1926) | #4,136 |
| 1930s | 16 | #3,742 (1935) | #4,158 |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,954 (1941) | #3,954 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 10 | #8,292 (1972) | #8,358 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 10 | #13,442 (1993) | #13,927 |
| 2000s | 49 | #9,379 (2009) | #12,649 |
| 2010s | 727 | #1,295 (2019) | #4,639 |
| 2020s | 2,121 | #590 (2025) | #820 |
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.
Marigold in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
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1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 4,042 of them was named Marigold, which outranked 96.0% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).