Mary

#125 for girls in 2025, 2,230 births · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #12,022
Given to girls 99.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
#1
1921 · 73,984 births
Debut · girls
1880
7,065 births
In top 100 · girls
129 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,141,481
since 1880

Mary over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100rank188019001920194019601980200020201962peak #1, 1921girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1252,230—
2024#1312,219—
2023#1322,085—
2022#1342,119—
2021#1322,102—
2020#1232,230#12,0225
2019#1262,241—
2018#1262,369—
2017#1262,425—
2016#1262,526—
2015#1232,642—
2014#1202,637#12,1085
2013#1182,669—
2012#1212,587#10,7706
2011#1122,715—
2010#1082,882#12,2315
2009#1023,177—
2008#963,514—
2007#933,697#7,59010
2006#804,116#7,42710
2005#724,481#7,09610
2004#624,838#3,15831
2003#595,043#7,2459
2002#495,487#5,72512
2001#485,762#5,14214
2000#466,222#6,31610
1999#456,390#5,65611
1998#446,478#4,65014
1997#466,650#4,66813
1996#446,968#4,02216
1995#407,458#4,50813
1994#377,758#5,45210
1993#368,124#3,50118
1992#368,463#2,74725
1991#388,764#2,22732
1990#358,670#1,75545
1989#388,645#1,25874
1988#348,518#1,52548
1987#378,395#1,15369
1986#378,507#1,45747
1985#359,240#1,13367
1984#339,293#1,22856
1983#329,897#1,20557
1982#3010,851#1,06473
1981#2711,042#1,11167
1980#2511,474#1,29152
1979#2410,555#1,10865
1978#2410,040#1,12161
1977#2110,656#1,22152
1976#2210,315#1,05662
1975#1910,973#1,00766
1974#1311,738#1,05261
1973#1412,313#1,10854
1972#1313,757#92974
1971#916,703#87786
1970#919,204#81299
1969#819,850#752108
1968#621,727#742101
1967#425,316#662127
1966#328,890#713108
1965#234,270#642136
1964#240,985#665134
1963#241,546#667137
1962#243,502#614158
1961#147,682#610168
1960#151,472#605169
1959#154,502#600169
1958#155,848#648141
1957#161,102#573182
1956#161,741#631145
1955#163,174#608148
1954#168,019#566168
1953#164,389#598146
1952#265,629#555159
1951#265,721#534161
1950#265,481#633119
1949#266,874#512169
1948#268,597#514164
1947#271,690#496184
1946#167,471#469186
1945#159,278#424198
1944#162,476#376253
1943#166,174#384254
1942#163,256#363278
1941#158,048#329315
1940#156,216#326303
1939#154,900#341272
1938#156,225#331284
1937#155,641#320288
1936#154,377#312292
1935#155,076#328277
1934#156,929#313302
1933#155,517#297318
1932#159,883#305330
1931#160,299#306325
1930#164,153#308340
1929#163,512#306327
1928#166,871#330294
1927#170,642#344283
1926#167,832#352272
1925#170,586#368260
1924#173,534#411224
1923#171,634#425203
1922#172,177#448186
1921#173,984#450187
1920#170,983#430195
1919#165,836#482154
1918#167,365#457169
1917#164,280#447159
1916#161,438#437164
1915#158,187#429159
1914#145,346#425127
1913#136,642#374126
1912#132,304#349118
1911#124,390#26298
1910#122,848#23699
1909#119,259#24780
1908#118,665#23579
1907#117,580#25270
1906#116,370#22576
1905#116,067#23968
1904#114,961#24958
1903#114,275#23063
1902#114,486#24856
1901#113,136#22958
1900#116,705#23075
1899#113,172#23450
1898#114,406#24950
1897#113,413#21163
1896#113,811#24057
1895#113,447#26147
1894#113,151#24948
1893#112,784#22955
1892#113,172#25150
1891#111,704#25739
1890#112,078#29035
1889#111,648#26041
1888#111,754#24550
1887#19,888#23047
1886#19,889#30132
1885#19,128#26838
1884#19,217#28836
1883#18,012#28932
1882#18,148#31330
1881#16,919#29629
1880#17,065#32527
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Mary was already there! It came in at #1, and was given to 7,065 baby girls.

Quietest stretch: 2010–2025, when fewer than 2,900 girls a year got the name.

Where Mary is popular in 1962

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: #1 for girls · 87 births · 1 in 31 girlsAKMaine: #4 for girls · 200 births · 1 in 50 girlsMEVermont: #4 for girls · 81 births · 1 in 42 girlsVTNew Hampshire: #8 for girls · 102 births · 1 in 54 girlsNHWashington: #3 for girls · 513 births · 1 in 54 girlsWAIdaho: #10 for girls · 94 births · 1 in 64 girlsIDMontana: #2 for girls · 135 births · 1 in 46 girlsMTNorth Dakota: #2 for girls · 169 births · 1 in 37 girlsNDMinnesota: #1 for girls · 1,241 births · 1 in 31 girlsMNIllinois: #1 for girls · 2,783 births · 1 in 37 girlsILWisconsin: #1 for girls · 1,464 births · 1 in 29 girlsWIMichigan: #1 for girls · 2,107 births · 1 in 39 girlsMINew York: #3 for girls · 3,822 births · 1 in 43 girlsNYMassachusetts: #4 for girls · 1,375 births · 1 in 37 girlsMARhode Island: #4 for girls · 235 births · 1 in 33 girlsRIOregon: #7 for girls · 234 births · 1 in 66 girlsORNevada: #3 for girls · 51 births · 1 in 54 girlsNVWyoming: #4 for girls · 52 births · 1 in 49 girlsWYSouth Dakota: #2 for girls · 171 births · 1 in 39 girlsSDIowa: #2 for girls · 730 births · 1 in 37 girlsIAIndiana: #2 for girls · 1,016 births · 1 in 48 girlsINOhio: #2 for girls · 2,435 births · 1 in 40 girlsOHPennsylvania: #2 for girls · 2,631 births · 1 in 40 girlsPANew Jersey: #4 for girls · 1,274 births · 1 in 45 girlsNJConnecticut: #4 for girls · 576 births · 1 in 41 girlsCTCalifornia: #4 for girls · 2,755 births · 1 in 63 girlsCAUtah: #7 for girls · 171 births · 1 in 62 girlsUTColorado: #4 for girls · 344 births · 1 in 56 girlsCONebraska: #2 for girls · 326 births · 1 in 44 girlsNEMissouri: #1 for girls · 1,133 births · 1 in 38 girlsMOKentucky: #1 for girls · 945 births · 1 in 33 girlsKYWest Virginia: #1 for girls · 422 births · 1 in 38 girlsWVVirginia: #1 for girls · 943 births · 1 in 43 girlsVAMaryland: #1 for girls · 814 births · 1 in 36 girlsMDDelaware: #2 for girls · 140 births · 1 in 31 girlsDEArizona: #1 for girls · 360 births · 1 in 43 girlsAZNew Mexico: #1 for girls · 285 births · 1 in 40 girlsNMKansas: #2 for girls · 425 births · 1 in 47 girlsKSArkansas: #1 for girls · 436 births · 1 in 40 girlsARTennessee: #3 for girls · 797 births · 1 in 45 girlsTNNorth Carolina: #2 for girls · 1,085 births · 1 in 44 girlsNCSouth Carolina: #1 for girls · 720 births · 1 in 35 girlsSCDistrict of Columbia: #2 for girls · 319 births · 1 in 41 girlsDCOklahoma: #3 for girls · 364 births · 1 in 57 girlsOKLouisiana: #1 for girls · 965 births · 1 in 39 girlsLAMississippi: #1 for girls · 814 births · 1 in 30 girlsMSAlabama: #1 for girls · 820 births · 1 in 41 girlsALGeorgia: #1 for girls · 1,020 births · 1 in 43 girlsGAHawaii: #8 for girls · 82 births · 1 in 78 girlsHITexas: #1 for girls · 2,437 births · 1 in 45 girlsTXFlorida: #2 for girls · 1,002 births · 1 in 49 girlsFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Wisconsin#1 · 1 in 29
  2. Mississippi#1 · 1 in 30
  3. Minnesota#1 · 1 in 31
  4. Alaska#1 · 1 in 31
  5. Kentucky#1 · 1 in 33

Best ever in a state: #1 in Alaska, 1910.

Show every state
StateRankBirthsShare
Alabama#18201 in 41
Alaska#1871 in 31
Arizona#13601 in 43
Arkansas#14361 in 40
Georgia#11,0201 in 43
Illinois#12,7831 in 37
Kentucky#19451 in 33
Louisiana#19651 in 39
Maryland#18141 in 36
Michigan#12,1071 in 39
Minnesota#11,2411 in 31
Mississippi#18141 in 30
Missouri#11,1331 in 38
New Mexico#12851 in 40
South Carolina#17201 in 35
Texas#12,4371 in 45
Virginia#19431 in 43
West Virginia#14221 in 38
Wisconsin#11,4641 in 29
Delaware#21401 in 31
District of Columbia#23191 in 41
Florida#21,0021 in 49
Indiana#21,0161 in 48
Iowa#27301 in 37
Kansas#24251 in 47
Montana#21351 in 46
Nebraska#23261 in 44
North Carolina#21,0851 in 44
North Dakota#21691 in 37
Ohio#22,4351 in 40
Pennsylvania#22,6311 in 40
South Dakota#21711 in 39
Nevada#3511 in 54
New York#33,8221 in 43
Oklahoma#33641 in 57
Tennessee#37971 in 45
Washington#35131 in 54
California#42,7551 in 63
Colorado#43441 in 56
Connecticut#45761 in 41
Maine#42001 in 50
Massachusetts#41,3751 in 37
New Jersey#41,2741 in 45
Rhode Island#42351 in 33
Vermont#4811 in 42
Wyoming#4521 in 49
Oregon#72341 in 66
Utah#71711 in 62
Hawaii#8821 in 78
New Hampshire#81021 in 54
Idaho#10941 in 64

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 Mary
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 6 spots since 2024 (#131 → #125)
  • 2 spots since 2020 (#123 → #125)
  • 2 spots since 2015 (#123 → #125)
  • Biggest jump: 6 spots in 2025 (#131 → #125)
  • Biggest drop: 13 spots in 2007 (#80 → #93)
Rise & fade · girls
41 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1921 at #1 (73,984 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 44 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 10 for 92 yrs
  • Top 10: 92 yrs · run 1880–1971
  • Top 100: 129 yrs · run 1880–2008
  • Top 1,000: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13
  • Highest: 1 in 13 girls born in 1880 were named Mary (7.8%)
  • Latest: 1 in 721 girls born in 2025 (0.14%)
  • Its best rank, #1 in 1921, was only 1 in 17 (6.0%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 16.9% of all girls named Mary (701,755) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s91,668#1 (1888)#1
1890s131,138#1 (1898)#1
1900s161,504#1 (1909)#1
1910s478,636#1 (1918)#1
1920s701,755#1 (1921)#1
1930s573,000#1 (1930)#1
1940s640,080#1 (1946)#1
1950s625,606#1 (1954)#1
1960s355,240#1 (1960)#3
1970s126,254#9 (1970)#17
1980s95,862#25 (1980)#33
1990s75,723#35 (1990)#40
2000s46,337#46 (2000)#71
2010s25,693#108 (2010)#121
2020s12,985#123 (2020)#130

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.

Mary in 1962

girls
#2
43,502 births · 1 in 45 girls
boys
#614
158 births · 1 in 13,093 boys

Top girls' names in 1962

  1. #1Lisa46,069
  2. #2Mary43,502
  3. #3Susan35,752
  4. #4Karen35,184
  5. #5Linda31,461
  6. #6Patricia26,532
  7. #7Donna25,719
  8. #8Cynthia24,025
  9. #9Deborah22,889
  10. #10Sandra22,420

Top boys' names in 1962

  1. #1Michael85,059
  2. #2David81,337
  3. #3John78,427
  4. #4James72,555
  5. #5Robert70,199
  6. #6Mark53,520
  7. #7William44,853
  8. #8Richard39,422
  9. #9Thomas36,529
  10. #10Jeffrey33,537
  11. #614Mary158
More about 1962

girls

1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 45 of them was named Mary, which outranked 100.0% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Mary
  1. #1Lisa46,069
  2. #2Mary43,502
  3. #3Susan35,752
  4. #4Karen35,184
  5. #5Linda31,461
Biggest movers since 1961
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,281Tiffany#2,070 → #789
  2. ↑ 879Whitney#1,627 → #748
  3. ↑ 541Zina#1,533 → #992
  4. ↑ 414Glynis#1,406 → #992
  5. ↑ 408Lolita#978 → #570
Fallers
  1. ↓ 300Fern#821 → #1,121
  2. ↓ 259Jacklyn#815 → #1,074
  3. ↓ 255Dorthy#929 → #1,184
  4. ↓ 224Laurene#943 → #1,167
  5. ↓ 215Jimmie#911 → #1,126

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,068,772 boys got a published name in 1962; 1 in 13,093 of them was named Mary, which outranked 86.7% of the 4,631 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Mary
  1. #611Toney159
  2. #611Vito159
  3. #611Wally159
  4. #614Mary158
  5. #614Sanford158
  6. #616Tad157
  7. #616Xavier157
  8. #618Bobbie156

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1961
Risers
  1. ↑ 490Ritchie#1,262 → #772
  2. ↑ 353King#1,349 → #996
  3. ↑ 338Arlie#1,322 → #984
  4. ↑ 250Robb#1,052 → #802
  5. ↑ 243Pernell#928 → #685
Fallers
  1. ↓ 351Mariano#928 → #1,279
  2. ↓ 349Michal#910 → #1,259
  3. ↓ 337Loran#958 → #1,295
  4. ↓ 292Sid#967 → #1,259
  5. ↓ 275Lorenza#940 → #1,215

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1962 →