Marybeth
Marybeth was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,044 among girls’ names; 10,260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,740 Americans named Marybeth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 45 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marybeth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marybeth mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marybeth is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
From Mary + Beth.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marybeth?
#6,044 among girls’ names, 2025
Marybeth rose from #7,860 in 2015 to #6,044 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 12.4 per million.
488 babies in 1961, the peak
Marybeth peaked in 1961, when 488 girls were given it, #443 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,044 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,834 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,572 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,346 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,316 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,107 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,583 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,559 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,132 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,584 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,860 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,405 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,919 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,054 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,056 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,400 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,038 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,727 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,266 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,122 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,328 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,723 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,701 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,223 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,724 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,192 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,552 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,051 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,074 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,539 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,138 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,823 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,101 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,040 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,883 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,547 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,619 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 113 | #1,289 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 114 | #1,244 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 121 | #1,175 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 121 | #1,175 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 126 | #1,099 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 131 | #1,062 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,185 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 110 | #1,198 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 108 | #1,225 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 120 | #1,122 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 128 | #1,055 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 128 | #1,037 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 94 | #1,212 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 97 | #1,199 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 98 | #1,163 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 123 | #971 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 121 | #990 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 148 | #900 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 177 | #793 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 218 | #674 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 231 | #637 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 269 | #583 | 0.16 |
| 1966 | 331 | #521 | 0.20 |
| 1965 | 407 | #471 | 0.23 |
| 1964 | 479 | #447 | 0.25 |
| 1963 | 480 | #443 | 0.25 |
| 1962 | 471 | #442 | 0.24 |
| 1961 | 488 | #443 | 0.24 |
| 1960 | 427 | #475 | 0.21 |
| 1959 | 378 | #502 | 0.19 |
| 1958 | 271 | #606 | 0.13 |
| 1957 | 238 | #634 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 192 | #692 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 155 | #770 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 153 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 119 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 131 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 140 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 108 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 101 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 112 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 93 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 71 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 55 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 63 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 42 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,458 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,997 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,633 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,473 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,146 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,346 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,764 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,430 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,722 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,229 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,084 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,732 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,255 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,930 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,415 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,221 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,206 | 0.01 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,418 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marybeth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marybeth has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marybeth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marybeth, and how old are they?
8,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 10,260 Americans ever recorded as Marybeth. The median Marybeth alive today is 60 years old; half are between 45 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 20,059 people named Marybeth (20,047 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,055 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 172 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,760 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,570 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 553 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 231 |
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 Marybeth born?
The states with the most babies named Marybeth are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,725 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,259 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| New Jersey | 798 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Massachusetts | 786 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Illinois | 584 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 457 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 391 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Connecticut | 314 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| California | 265 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 216 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Marybeth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marybeth is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 2.7 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 Marybeth 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 16,588 babies since 1880, Marybeth is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 38 babies (53%), 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 Marybeth
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 Marybeth and names like it
- Compare Marybeth and MaribethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMarybeth peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marybeth since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Marybeth: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Marybeth.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marybeth alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.