Mare
Mare was last recorded in 2023, when 8 babies were given it; 339 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mare by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mare mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mare is “a diminutive of the female given names Mary, Maria, Marianne, and other female names beginning with Mar- , from Hebrew.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mare?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,563, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1969, the peak
Mare peaked in 1969, when 21 boys were given it, #1,842 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #7,563 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,061 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,261 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,341 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,181 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,817 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,358 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,973 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,028 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,974 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 9 | #4,040 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,896 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,166 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,052 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,601 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,082 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,730 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,365 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,842 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,558 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,305 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,153 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,440 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,773 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,883 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,876 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,267 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,794 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,594 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,587 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,415 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,510 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,386 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,305 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,274 | 3.6 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,551 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,025 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,065 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mare a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 339 Americans recorded as Mare, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mare: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mare, and how old are they?
An estimated 279 Americans named Mare and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 576 people named Mare (467 women and girls, 109 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Mare rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 162,410 babies since 1880, Mare is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 849 babies recorded by SSA was a Mare (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mare
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mare and names like it
- Compare Mare and MarioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMare peaked in 1969.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mare since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Mare.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mare alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.