Marice
Marice was last recorded in 2011, when 11 babies were given it; 1,184 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,311, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1971, the peak
Marice peaked in 1971, when 36 babies were given it (15 boys, #2,511 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | under 5 | 11 | #7,311 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 8 | #9,350 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #13,758 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 9 | #8,751 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,827 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,540 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 9 | #8,064 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #12,516 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,190 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,858 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | under 5 | 10 | #6,328 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #9,206 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,222 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,850 | 10 | #5,755 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 11 | #5,312 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 10 | #5,633 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,630 | 12 | #4,752 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,487 | 13 | #4,379 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,312 | 12 | #4,568 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 17 | #3,390 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 14 | #3,630 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,411 | 25 | #2,306 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,056 | 17 | #2,961 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 24 | #2,267 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 18 | #2,665 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,292 | 19 | #2,542 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,243 | 16 | #2,922 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,671 | 18 | #2,638 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,830 | 25 | #2,150 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 24 | #2,135 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 19 | #2,442 | |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,732 | 17 | #2,616 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,222 | 25 | #1,967 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,482 | 18 | #2,409 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,210 | 24 | #1,916 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,499 | 19 | #2,179 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,435 | 18 | #2,212 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,225 | 15 | #2,511 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,397 | 13 | #2,694 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,405 | 11 | #2,795 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,721 | 12 | #2,527 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,498 | 9 | #2,902 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,215 | 7 | #3,423 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,147 | 6 | #3,783 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,405 | 12 | #2,501 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,237 | 6 | #3,884 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,631 | 5 | #4,428 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,645 | 7 | #3,557 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,128 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,356 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,847 | 6 | #3,790 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,422 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 7 | #3,416 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,390 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,850 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,862 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,745 | 5 | #4,077 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,662 | 5 | #4,055 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,731 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,787 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,908 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,080 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,081 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,010 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,093 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,827 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,087 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 6 | #3,397 | |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,097 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,619 | 6 | #3,400 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,055 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #4,004 | |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,045 | 5 | #3,968 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,222 | 6 | #3,623 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,234 | 7 | #3,480 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,338 | |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,349 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,326 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,343 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 10 | #2,862 | |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,883 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,895 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,865 | 5 | #4,738 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,829 | 7 | #3,698 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,606 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Marice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,184 Americans recorded as Marice, 39% are girls and 61% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marice, and how old are they?
An estimated 917 Americans named Marice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 39 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 903 people named Marice (424 women and girls, 479 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 970 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 218,866 babies since 1880, Marice is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,082 babies recorded by SSA was a Marice (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 Marice
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Adrain | 4,820 |
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 Marice and names like it
- Compare Marice and MauriceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarice peaked in 1971.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marice since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Marice.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marice alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.