Marris
Marris was last recorded in 1998, when 6 babies were given it; 68 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marris?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,478, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1940, the peak
Marris peaked in 1940, when 8 boys were given it, #2,790 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | #5,478 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,880 | 2.9 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,034 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,790 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,353 | 5.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,006 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,970 | 5.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,648 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,711 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,559 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 5 | #4,348 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 68 Americans recorded as Marris, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marris, and how old are they?
An estimated 22 Americans named Marris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 138 people named Marris (67 women and girls, 71 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28 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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marris
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Mervyn | 1,586 |
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.