Marion

Where Marion comes from

From Middle English Marion, from Old French Marion, a diminutive of Marie, used in England since the Middle Ages.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marion
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #137 among girls — 115 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1922
    Peak, #42
    5,667 babies named Marion — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #88.
  4. 1975
    Marion Cotillard born
    French actress and model
  5. 1984
    Marion Bartoli born
    French tennis player
  6. 2013
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, or by folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Mary.
Namesakes
  • Marion Cotillard · French actress and model, born 1975
  • Marion Bartoli · French tennis player, born 1984
  • Marion Jones · American athlete, born 1975
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley · American novelist and editor, 1930–1999
  • Marion Maréchal · French politician, born 1989

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.