Girls' name · since 1938
Maryjoan
44 babies named Maryjoan in U.S. Social Security records since 1938, with the highest year being 1943. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 44
- total births
- 1938–1965
- years on record
- 1940s
- peak decade
- 41%
- born in that decade
44 girls have been named Maryjoan since 1938, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Maryjoan has 44 recorded births among girls since 1938, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1938 to 1965.
- 44 total births
- 1938–1965 years on record
- 1940s peak decade
- 41% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Maryjoan's 44 recorded births place it above 49% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Maryjoan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Maryjoan splits its recorded history at 1952: 48% of all births land in the more recent half, 52% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1938 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1943 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Maryjoan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1938–1965
- Peak year (1943)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Maryjoan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1940s was Maryjoan's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 41% of all-time use.
Maryjoan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s 5
1930s
5 births
- 1940s
1940s
18 births
- 1950s
1950s
10 births
- 1960s
1960s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 18 births (41% of all-time use).
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- Maryjoan's usage has stayed within range of its 1940s decade-level peak (18 total births) through the 1960s (11) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1938–1965 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Maryjoan: Baby Name Since 1938 - 44 Births, Peak 1943." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/maryjoan. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maryjoan draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.