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Mary
Pronounced /ˈmɛəɹi/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1930 · #308
Origin
Aramaic
Also recorded for girls:2,196 in 2024 (#132)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Mary in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1930 with 340 babies, ranked #308.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 15,172 boys 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.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,791 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Silent: 5,250 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,006 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,312 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Millennials: 717 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 155 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 10 babies, 0.00 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.