Marry
Marry was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,318 among girls’ names; 1,873 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marry?
#14,318 among girls’ names, 2025
Marry rose from #18,191 in 2015 to #14,318 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
37 babies in 1918, the peak
Marry peaked in 1918, when 37 girls were given it, #1,249 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,318 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,819 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,097 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,497 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,839 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,191 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,117 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,194 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,091 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,255 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (130)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #10,411 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,321 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,459 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,563 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,583 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,791 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,692 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,410 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,506 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,124 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,338 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,891 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,867 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,838 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,752 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,230 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,142 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,452 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,130 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,596 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,356 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,905 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,173 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,054 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,408 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,147 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,167 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,504 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,416 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,294 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,245 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,370 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,356 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,501 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,324 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,738 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,666 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,274 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,839 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,166 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,113 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,361 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,193 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,764 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,994 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,141 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,302 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,057 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,929 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,105 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,007 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,518 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,565 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,214 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,746 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,292 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,310 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,108 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,273 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,417 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,953 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,921 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,471 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,318 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,171 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,931 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 17 | #2,010 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,412 | 25.5 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,188 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,668 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,113 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,590 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,677 | 20.1 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,358 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,319 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,782 | 18.8 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,789 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,988 | 16.1 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,452 | 26.0 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,656 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,471 | 26.2 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,362 | 28.8 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,551 | 24.0 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,376 | 28.2 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,492 | 25.8 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,259 | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,732 | 20.0 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,309 | 31.0 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,249 | 32.0 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,493 | 24.0 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,392 | 26.8 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,466 | 25.4 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,216 | 34.1 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,339 | 30.4 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,395 | 28.7 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,516 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,052 | 45.4 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,135 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,405 | 29.9 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,073 | 43.9 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,136 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,383 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 21 | #794 | 76.3 |
| 1903 | 15 | #917 | 57.3 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,112 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,197 | 37.6 |
| 1900 | 19 | #876 | 63.4 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,525 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,627 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,710 | 21.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,742 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,435 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,139 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,143 | 37.7 |
| 1890 | 10 | #918 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,225 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,411 | 28.0 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,004 | 48.0 |
| 1883 | 6 | #886 | 53.4 |
| 1882 | 6 | #868 | 55.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marry has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 130 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marry, and how old are they?
An estimated 850 Americans named Marry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 36 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,905 people named Marry (2,849 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 932 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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).
How common is the spelling Marry?
Marry is a less common spelling of Mary: SSA has recorded 1,873 Marry and 4,156,654 Mary since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,365,416 babies since 1880, Marry is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 6,450 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Marry
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 Marry and names like it
- Compare Marry and MaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMarry peaked in 1918.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marry since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Marry.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marry alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.