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Mary
Pronounced /ˈmɛəɹi/
Rank in 2024
#132
Born in 2024
2,196
Peak year
1921 · #1
Origin
Aramaic
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,196 girls were named Mary, about 1 in every 735.
- It peaked in 1921 with 73,984 babies, ranked #1.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 4,139,160 girls have been named Mary since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Mary per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 58.4Greatest1901–27
- 51.7Silent1928–45
- 31.4Boomers1946–64
- 10.5Gen X1965–80
- 5.0Millennials1981–96
- 2.5Gen Z1997–12
- 1.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,194,808 babies, 58.38 per 1,000. Silent: 1,068,827 babies, 51.72 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,125,416 babies, 31.42 per 1,000. Gen X: 267,783 babies, 10.48 per 1,000. Millennials: 140,586 babies, 4.98 per 1,000. Gen Z: 74,003 babies, 2.55 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 28,226 babies, 1.39 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Marie, from Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from post-Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic מַרְיָם (Maryām), from Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (Miryām), of uncertain meaning. (See the Hebrew entry for more.) Doublet of Miriam, Marie, Maria, and Mariah.
- A female given name from Aramaic or Hebrew.
- Origin
- Aramaic
- Say it
- /ˈmɛəɹi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Mary, CC BY-SA 4.0.