Marigold
Marigold was given to 498 girls in 2025, #590 among girls’ names; 2,978 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,910 Americans named Marigold and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marigold by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marigold mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marigold is “a female given name.”
From the flower. The rubber gloves are generally bright yellow in colour.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marigold?
#590 among girls’ names, 2025
Marigold rose from #2,674 in 2015 to #590 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.31 per 1,000.
498 babies in 2025, the peak
Marigold peaked in 2025, when 498 girls were given it, #590 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 411 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 498 | #590 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 411 | #690 | 0.25 |
| 2023 | 397 | #713 | 0.25 |
| 2022 | 340 | #826 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 252 | #1,013 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 223 | #1,097 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 177 | #1,300 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,418 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,651 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,106 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,674 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,724 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,973 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,825 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,275 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,045 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,778 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,819 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,568 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,047 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,391 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,933 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,225 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,057 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,994 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,121 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,286 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,313 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marigold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marigold has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marigold: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marigold, and how old are they?
2,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,978 Americans ever recorded as Marigold. The median Marigold alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 1,039 people named Marigold (1,034 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 860 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 96 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,790 |
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 Marigold born?
The states with the most babies named Marigold are California, Texas and Tennessee, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 51 | #626 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 37 | #814 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 24 | #343 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 24 | #343 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #554 | 0.7× |
| New York | 19 | #848 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 19 | #552 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #589 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 18 | #559 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 18 | #601 | 0.7× |
Where Marigold is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marigold is most over-represented in Washington: since 1918 it was given 1.5 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 Marigold with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marigold
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 Marigold and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Marigold.
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