Marice — boys' name

What the Data Says About Marice

The Social Security Administration has registered 717 babies named Marice between 1920 and 2011, spanning 92 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marice currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Marice is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 467 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marice performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 193 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Marice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Marice in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marice in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 717 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.