Mari
Mari was given to 129 girls in 2025, #1,620 among girls’ names; 16,645 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,400 Americans named Mari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 27 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mari mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mari is “a female given name from Japanese.”
/ˈmɑɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mari?
#1,620 among girls’ names, 2025
Mari rose from #2,185 in 2015 to #1,620 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 48.7 to 80.3 per million.
412 babies in 1957, the peak
Mari peaked in 1957, when 412 girls were given it, #467 among girls’ names. The 135 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,620 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,517 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,435 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 150 | #1,471 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,522 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,997 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,796 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,848 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 120 | #1,760 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,921 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,185 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 99 | #2,005 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,840 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,696 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,663 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,684 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 143 | #1,580 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,783 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,577 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,409 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,412 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 167 | #1,286 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 149 | #1,361 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 157 | #1,260 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 163 | #1,236 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 146 | #1,307 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 165 | #1,179 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 170 | #1,125 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 169 | #1,114 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 173 | #1,071 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 188 | #997 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 185 | #1,008 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 149 | #1,173 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 184 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 173 | #1,052 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 203 | #935 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 198 | #914 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 199 | #887 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 161 | #981 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 164 | #965 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 163 | #956 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 173 | #876 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 179 | #855 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 204 | #793 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 200 | #804 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 176 | #874 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 180 | #862 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 135 | #1,013 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 136 | #996 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 138 | #935 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 153 | #874 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 179 | #774 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 190 | #739 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 185 | #755 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 210 | #724 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 226 | #695 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 218 | #673 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 236 | #628 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 274 | #575 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 257 | #590 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 303 | #546 | 0.17 |
| 1964 | 339 | #534 | 0.18 |
| 1963 | 329 | #534 | 0.17 |
| 1962 | 346 | #524 | 0.18 |
| 1961 | 347 | #522 | 0.17 |
| 1960 | 341 | #524 | 0.17 |
| 1959 | 343 | #526 | 0.17 |
| 1958 | 344 | #524 | 0.17 |
| 1957 | 412 | #467 | 0.20 |
| 1956 | 361 | #492 | 0.18 |
| 1955 | 343 | #493 | 0.18 |
| 1954 | 361 | #463 | 0.19 |
| 1953 | 317 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1952 | 245 | #547 | 0.13 |
| 1951 | 223 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1950 | 226 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1949 | 163 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 163 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 132 | #745 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 122 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 90 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 94 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 87 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 63 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 60 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 55 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 44 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,502 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,924 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,870 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,760 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,986 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,333 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,559 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,023 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,866 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,125 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,935 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,326 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,639 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,210 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,708 | 0.01 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,965 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mari has been given almost only to girls: 66 boys in 115 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mari, and how old are they?
14,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 16,645 Americans ever recorded as Mari. The median Mari alive today is 48 years old; half are between 27 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 21,045 people named Mari (20,534 women and girls, 511 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,150 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Mari rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 308 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,950 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Mari born?
The states with the most babies named Mari are California, Texas and Illinois, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,299 | #1,013 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 1,076 | #3,626 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 1,066 | #1,546 | 1.3× |
| New York | 887 | #1,475 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 795 | #1,346 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 653 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 509 | #801 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 509 | #1,535 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 454 | #873 | 1.5× |
| Wisconsin | 417 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Mari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mari is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,478,822 babies since 1880, Mari is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 135 of their 7,137 babies (1.9%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Mari
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 Mari and names like it
- Compare Mari and MaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMari peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mari since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Mari: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Mari.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mari alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.