Marine
Marine was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,311 among girls’ names; 996 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marine mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Marine is “a female given name, equivalent to English Marina”
/ma.ʁin/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marine?
#14,311 among girls’ names, 2025
Marine rose from #15,713 in 2015 to #14,311 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
31 babies in 1934, the peak
Marine peaked in 1934, when 31 girls were given it, #1,306 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,311 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,090 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,008 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,120 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,265 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,902 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,713 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,595 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,179 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,549 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #13,035 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,516 | 3.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,188 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,815 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,980 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,124 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,682 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,024 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,086 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,848 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,515 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,407 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,156 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,533 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,142 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,636 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,228 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,946 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,789 | 6.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,698 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,195 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,746 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,068 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,811 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,858 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,759 | 7.2 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,382 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,055 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,226 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,095 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,355 | 4.1 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,817 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,412 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,673 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,140 | 4.1 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,990 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,394 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,518 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,449 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,305 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,192 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,041 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,727 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,216 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,565 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,576 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,886 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,054 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,621 | 9.6 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,374 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,524 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,862 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,888 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,636 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,263 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,306 | 29.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,038 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,731 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,844 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,169 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,987 | 16.1 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,573 | 23.4 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,647 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,911 | 17.7 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,877 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,278 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,711 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,445 | 12.5 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,705 | 21.1 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,230 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,928 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,786 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,818 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,327 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,014 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,465 | 7.9 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,282 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,890 | 19.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,416 | 14.4 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,124 | 16.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,951 | 18.9 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,677 | 23.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marine has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marine, and how old are they?
An estimated 480 Americans named Marine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (48% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 26 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,568 people named Marine (2,335 women and girls, 233 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 528 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.9 times 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.
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 173,295 babies since 1880, Marine is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,915 babies (<1%), 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 Marine
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 Marine and names like it
- Compare Marine and MarianneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sMarine peaked in 1934.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marine since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Marine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Marine.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marine alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.