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Marion
Rank in 2024
#2,314
Born in 2024
61
Peak year
1921 · #102
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:107 in 2024 (#1,868)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 61 boys were named Marion, about 1 in every 28,120.
- It peaked in 1921 with 1,716 babies, ranked #102.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 72,440 boys have been named Marion since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Marion per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.5Greatest1901–27
- 1.0Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 25,003 babies, 1.50 per 1,000. Silent: 20,813 babies, 1.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 13,451 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,701 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,253 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,064 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 834 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Marion, from Old French Marion, a diminutive of Marie, used in England since the Middle Ages.
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- (chiefly US) A male given name transferred from the surname, or by folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Mary.
- A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, from the given name Marianne.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Marion, CC BY-SA 4.0.