Marykate
Marykate was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,500 among girls’ names; 2,189 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,130 Americans named Marykate and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 19 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marykate by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marykate?
#3,500 among girls’ names, 2025
Marykate rose from #6,631 in 2015 to #3,500 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 27.4 per million.
85 babies in 2001, the peak
Marykate peaked in 2001, when 85 girls were given it, #2,001 among girls’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,500 | 27.4 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,532 | 19.1 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,947 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,890 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,038 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,440 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,857 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,953 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,280 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,800 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,631 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,326 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,429 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,828 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,480 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,693 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,643 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,421 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,267 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,538 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,149 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,463 | 37.6 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,162 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,518 | 35.1 |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,001 | 47.2 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,320 | 36.9 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,170 | 39.5 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,951 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,183 | 36.2 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,800 | 46.8 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,907 | 41.5 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,773 | 45.9 |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,766 | 45.9 |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,116 | 34.7 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,223 | 31.5 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,501 | 25.3 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,631 | 23.3 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,728 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,299 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,322 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,777 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,102 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,393 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,225 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,114 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,464 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,620 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,015 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,002 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,443 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,036 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,358 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,074 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,689 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,963 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,957 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,920 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,387 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,271 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,871 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,397 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,633 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,768 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,380 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,722 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,620 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,884 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,867 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marykate a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marykate has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marykate: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marykate, and how old are they?
2,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,189 Americans ever recorded as Marykate. The median Marykate alive today is 28 years old; half are between 19 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 3,506 people named Marykate (3,502 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 67 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 196 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 741 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 776 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 354 |
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 Marykate born?
The states with the most babies named Marykate are New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts and New Jersey are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 221 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Massachusetts | 154 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| New Jersey | 114 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 110 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 100 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 68 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Marykate is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marykate is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1958 it was given 3.0 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 Marykate with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marykate
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 Marykate and names like it
- Compare Marykate and CarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarykate peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marykate since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Marykate.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marykate alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.