Marius — #2417 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Marius

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,602 babies named Marius between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marius currently holds the #2417 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 80 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marius performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 613 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Marius shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 202 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Marius in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marius 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 2,602 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.