Marye
Marye was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 1,557 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marye mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marye is “a female given name, variant of Mary.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,138, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1920, the peak
Marye peaked in 1920, when 47 girls were given it, #1,097 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,138 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,666 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,641 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,954 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,675 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,881 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,364 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,727 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,499 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,363 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | #10,145 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,887 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,460 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,846 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,066 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,657 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,122 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,092 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,785 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,141 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,019 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,270 | 4.8 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,872 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,856 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,684 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,179 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,773 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,656 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,750 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,326 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,616 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,132 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,520 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,972 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,215 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,057 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,653 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,503 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,650 | 19.3 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,804 | 16.5 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,124 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,837 | 15.9 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,779 | 17.6 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,256 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,878 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,744 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,933 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,727 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,458 | 24.6 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,082 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,274 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,928 | 16.3 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,593 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,591 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,359 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,858 | 17.8 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,845 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,363 | 28.4 |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,409 | 26.9 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,622 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,118 | 39.4 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,573 | 23.6 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,265 | 32.0 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,461 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,259 | 32.3 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,222 | 34.1 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,194 | 34.1 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,097 | 39.2 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,232 | 33.6 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,162 | 36.3 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,274 | 30.5 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,372 | 27.8 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,067 | 40.7 |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,192 | 35.5 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,137 | 38.4 |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,136 | 39.4 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,348 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,588 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,090 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,326 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,592 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,868 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,495 | 27.4 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,789 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,968 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,290 | 34.1 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,203 | 36.7 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,342 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,229 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,377 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,177 | 38.5 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,460 | 26.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marye, and how old are they?
An estimated 494 Americans named Marye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 59 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 678 people named Marye (665 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 612 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Marye rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,316,573 babies since 1880, Marye is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,286 babies recorded by SSA was a Marye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Marye
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 Marye and names like it
- Compare Marye and MaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMarye peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marye since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Marye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.