Marnie
Marnie was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,186 among girls’ names; 6,141 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,610 Americans named Marnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 45 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marnie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marnie is “a female given name from Latin or Hebrew.”
Possibly a contraction of Marina or a diminutive of Marian.
/ˈmɑɹni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marnie?
#2,186 among girls’ names, 2025
Marnie rose from #5,769 in 2015 to #2,186 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 52.9 per million.
510 babies in 1969, the peak
Marnie peaked in 1969, when 510 girls were given it, #428 among girls’ names. The 85 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,186 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,500 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,687 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,458 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,057 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,129 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,048 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,648 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,653 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,085 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,769 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,516 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,974 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,952 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,668 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,052 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,735 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,872 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,831 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,082 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,158 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,407 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,859 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,296 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,985 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,860 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,401 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,502 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,610 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,263 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,169 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,962 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,544 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,039 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,333 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,406 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,450 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,835 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,756 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,021 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,908 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,363 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,806 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,068 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,762 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,479 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 75 | #1,551 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,103 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 140 | #982 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 152 | #878 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 186 | #764 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 237 | #646 | 0.16 |
| 1973 | 255 | #607 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 308 | #544 | 0.20 |
| 1971 | 358 | #519 | 0.22 |
| 1970 | 433 | #472 | 0.25 |
| 1969 | 510 | #428 | 0.30 |
| 1968 | 448 | #456 | 0.27 |
| 1967 | 252 | #600 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 246 | #604 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 266 | #584 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 112 | #1,020 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,140 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,802 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,165 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,748 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,323 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,393 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,316 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,105 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,378 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,946 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,382 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,272 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,051 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,074 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,165 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,166 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,334 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,993 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,372 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,592 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,317 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,045 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marnie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marnie, and how old are they?
5,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 6,141 Americans ever recorded as Marnie. The median Marnie alive today is 54 years old; half are between 45 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 5,648 people named Marnie (5,592 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,380 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 408 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,750 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 553 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 271 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 599 |
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 Marnie born?
The states with the most babies named Marnie are California, New York and Michigan, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 611 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 383 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 247 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 239 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 232 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 188 | #949 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 153 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 143 | #3,634 | 0.3× |
| Utah | 135 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Washington | 122 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Marnie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marnie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1915 it was given 2.3 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 Marnie 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 15,245 babies since 1880, Marnie is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 120 babies (71%), again the most given.
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 Marnie
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 Marnie and names like it
- Compare Marnie and MarniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMarnie peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marnie since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Marnie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Marnie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marnie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.