Marion
Marion is given to both girls and boys: 93 girls and 54 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,044 among girls’ names and #2,504 among boys’, #2,742 among all names counting both); 261,713 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Marion every year since 2013.
An estimated 61,800 Americans named Marion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 55 and 81.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marion mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marion is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname, or by folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Mary.”
From Middle English Marion, from Old French Marion, a diminutive of Marie, used in England since the Middle Ages.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marion?
#2,044 among girls’ names, 2025
Marion fell from #1,511 in 2015 to #2,044 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 84.0 to 57.9 per million.
7,660 babies in 1924, the peak
Marion peaked in 1924, when 7,660 babies were given it (6,047 girls, #46 among girls’ names). The 147 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,044 | 54 | #2,504 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,877 | 62 | #2,302 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,664 | 59 | #2,353 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,729 | 61 | #2,340 |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,647 | 40 | #3,056 |
| 2020 | 106 | #1,847 | 57 | #2,359 |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,556 | 70 | #2,073 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,606 | 76 | #1,948 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,550 | 77 | #1,889 |
| 2016 | 159 | #1,454 | 77 | #1,914 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 150 | #1,511 | 77 | #1,905 |
| 2014 | 142 | #1,541 | 82 | #1,822 |
| 2013 | 140 | #1,556 | 97 | #1,599 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,855 | 110 | #1,475 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,826 | 102 | #1,557 |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,037 | 124 | #1,370 |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,910 | 119 | #1,418 |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,100 | 140 | #1,248 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,865 | 146 | #1,213 |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,046 | 156 | #1,118 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,887 | 167 | #1,015 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,731 | 138 | #1,142 |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,622 | 158 | #1,003 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,476 | 120 | #1,173 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,553 | 106 | #1,259 |
| 2000 | 141 | #1,340 | 103 | #1,266 |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,639 | 109 | #1,182 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,386 | 135 | #1,009 |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,336 | 131 | #989 |
| 1996 | 115 | #1,432 | 117 | #1,042 |
| 1995 | 108 | #1,476 | 90 | #1,224 |
| 1994 | 123 | #1,358 | 86 | #1,258 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,401 | 101 | #1,118 |
| 1992 | 174 | #1,053 | 130 | #937 |
| 1991 | 158 | #1,121 | 145 | #872 |
| 1990 | 166 | #1,067 | 136 | #880 |
| 1989 | 152 | #1,100 | 149 | #809 |
| 1988 | 176 | #954 | 168 | #728 |
| 1987 | 151 | #1,030 | 137 | #790 |
| 1986 | 162 | #976 | 164 | #704 |
| 1985 | 168 | #937 | 155 | #712 |
| 1984 | 165 | #906 | 169 | #667 |
| 1983 | 176 | #868 | 136 | #741 |
| 1982 | 211 | #778 | 183 | #639 |
| 1981 | 211 | #777 | 187 | #626 |
| 1980 | 190 | #828 | 204 | #614 |
| 1979 | 185 | #843 | 233 | #563 |
| 1978 | 184 | #815 | 205 | #589 |
| 1977 | 229 | #686 | 227 | #553 |
| 1976 | 192 | #753 | 242 | #518 |
| 1975 | 233 | #652 | 245 | #513 |
| 1974 | 234 | #652 | 266 | #492 |
| 1973 | 268 | #589 | 298 | #455 |
| 1972 | 293 | #565 | 300 | #456 |
| 1971 | 361 | #515 | 344 | #440 |
| 1970 | 383 | #513 | 304 | #465 |
| 1969 | 414 | #475 | 341 | #428 |
| 1968 | 434 | #462 | 367 | #403 |
| 1967 | 467 | #436 | 343 | #413 |
| 1966 | 533 | #396 | 352 | #401 |
| 1965 | 567 | #387 | 430 | #374 |
| 1964 | 727 | #350 | 456 | #365 |
| 1963 | 736 | #349 | 458 | #371 |
| 1962 | 773 | #339 | 490 | #358 |
| 1961 | 751 | #347 | 566 | #330 |
| 1960 | 810 | #330 | 540 | #335 |
| 1959 | 921 | #298 | 545 | #331 |
| 1958 | 1,055 | #271 | 582 | #316 |
| 1957 | 1,055 | #267 | 610 | #307 |
| 1956 | 1,103 | #252 | 745 | #267 |
| 1955 | 1,147 | #240 | 712 | #264 |
| 1954 | 1,337 | #219 | 833 | #242 |
| 1953 | 1,275 | #226 | 777 | #241 |
| 1952 | 1,264 | #217 | 782 | #238 |
| 1951 | 1,339 | #207 | 855 | #225 |
| 1950 | 1,387 | #196 | 820 | #224 |
| 1949 | 1,520 | #182 | 839 | #218 |
| 1948 | 1,592 | #175 | 934 | #208 |
| 1947 | 1,847 | #160 | 962 | #206 |
| 1946 | 1,753 | #155 | 945 | #189 |
| 1945 | 1,602 | #145 | 841 | #184 |
| 1944 | 1,803 | #140 | 955 | #175 |
| 1943 | 2,124 | #129 | 1,066 | #170 |
| 1942 | 2,152 | #130 | 1,052 | #163 |
| 1941 | 1,986 | #130 | 1,025 | #164 |
| 1940 | 2,111 | #120 | 1,049 | #158 |
| 1939 | 2,069 | #120 | 1,033 | #155 |
| 1938 | 2,150 | #118 | 1,139 | #145 |
| 1937 | 2,309 | #109 | 1,116 | #140 |
| 1936 | 2,580 | #93 | 1,049 | #148 |
| 1935 | 2,813 | #88 | 1,181 | #134 |
| 1934 | 2,884 | #86 | 1,130 | #139 |
| 1933 | 3,199 | #73 | 1,195 | #133 |
| 1932 | 3,493 | #73 | 1,316 | #132 |
| 1931 | 3,763 | #66 | 1,311 | #133 |
| 1930 | 4,305 | #60 | 1,389 | #126 |
| 1929 | 4,633 | #53 | 1,451 | #118 |
| 1928 | 5,420 | #47 | 1,515 | #118 |
| 1927 | 5,211 | #51 | 1,592 | #117 |
| 1926 | 5,353 | #47 | 1,626 | #113 |
| 1925 | 5,577 | #47 | 1,617 | #109 |
| 1924 | 6,047 | #46 | 1,613 | #112 |
| 1923 | 5,711 | #44 | 1,670 | #106 |
| 1922 | 5,667 | #42 | 1,631 | #107 |
| 1921 | 5,814 | #43 | 1,716 | #102 |
| 1920 | 5,745 | #43 | 1,604 | #109 |
| 1919 | 5,158 | #44 | 1,488 | #106 |
| 1918 | 5,583 | #45 | 1,535 | #107 |
| 1917 | 5,371 | #45 | 1,416 | #108 |
| 1916 | 5,033 | #47 | 1,357 | #110 |
| 1915 | 4,456 | #50 | 1,295 | #112 |
| 1914 | 3,550 | #50 | 982 | #115 |
| 1913 | 2,854 | #51 | 771 | #111 |
| 1912 | 2,522 | #55 | 680 | #112 |
| 1911 | 1,744 | #58 | 346 | #110 |
| 1910 | 1,703 | #59 | 286 | #108 |
| 1909 | 1,445 | #58 | 247 | #111 |
| 1908 | 1,349 | #63 | 233 | #109 |
| 1907 | 1,251 | #63 | 226 | #106 |
| 1906 | 1,183 | #63 | 181 | #119 |
| 1905 | 1,141 | #65 | 170 | #127 |
| 1904 | 1,109 | #65 | 198 | #109 |
| 1903 | 1,042 | #61 | 188 | #104 |
| 1902 | 1,033 | #66 | 176 | #108 |
| 1901 | 963 | #63 | 159 | #107 |
| 1900 | 1,197 | #66 | 189 | #124 |
| 1899 | 973 | #63 | 152 | #112 |
| 1898 | 1,085 | #62 | 166 | #111 |
| 1897 | 994 | #60 | 153 | #113 |
| 1896 | 987 | #67 | 172 | #110 |
| 1895 | 856 | #69 | 148 | #115 |
| 1894 | 587 | #89 | 154 | #111 |
| 1893 | 532 | #93 | 139 | #117 |
| 1892 | 497 | #95 | 166 | #108 |
| 1891 | 413 | #99 | 121 | #116 |
| 1890 | 386 | #106 | 137 | #116 |
| 1889 | 331 | #115 | 153 | #107 |
| 1888 | 322 | #114 | 162 | #105 |
| 1887 | 254 | #118 | 131 | #105 |
| 1886 | 273 | #113 | 182 | #88 |
| 1885 | 198 | #126 | 141 | #103 |
| 1884 | 181 | #133 | 184 | #86 |
| 1883 | 184 | #115 | 163 | #87 |
| 1882 | 141 | #128 | 157 | #93 |
| 1881 | 110 | #143 | 162 | #82 |
| 1880 | 115 | #137 | 189 | #80 |
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 Marion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 261,713 Americans recorded as Marion, 72% are girls and 28% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marion, and how old are they?
61,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 24% of the 261,713 Americans ever recorded as Marion. The median Marion alive today is 71 years old; half are between 55 and 81.
The 2020 Census counted 79,603 people named Marion (56,139 women and girls, 23,464 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 80,194 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 15,900 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,870 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,590 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,560 |
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 Marion born?
The states with the most babies named Marion are New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 30,372 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 16,780 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 12,981 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 10,953 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 9,572 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 9,312 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 9,214 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| South Carolina | 8,669 | #598 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 8,384 | #2,826 | 0.6× |
| California | 7,480 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Marion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marion is most over-represented in Vermont: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Marion 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 438,046 babies since 1880, Marion is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 147 of their 1,251 babies (12%), the third 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 Marion
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 Marion and names like it
- Compare Marion and MarianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMarion peaked in 1924.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marion since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Marion: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Marion.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marion alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.