Mary Girl
How popular is Mary?
#125 girl name in 2025
2,230 baby girls were named Mary in the US in 2025, making it the 125th most popular girl name.
Mary popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #125 for girls (▲ 6 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 2,230 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-16% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #123 in 2015, #123 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1921 (73,984 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1 in 1880 (76 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Mary counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Mary family of names ranked #123 for girls in 2025 (#125 the year before), with 2,715 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Mary | 2,230 | 82% |
| Mairi | 5 | 0% |
| Marry | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Mary is most popular
Babies named Mary per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 7.8 per 1,000 (365 girls)
- Alabama: 7.7 per 1,000 (721 girls)
- District of Columbia: 4.0 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- South Carolina: 3.6 per 1,000 (328 girls)
- Arkansas: 3.6 per 1,000 (192 girls)
Mary by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 91,668 | #1 |
| 1890s | 131,138 | #1 |
| 1900s | 161,504 | #1 |
| 1910s | 478,636 | #1 |
| 1920s | 701,755 | #1 |
| 1930s | 573,000 | #1 |
| 1940s | 640,080 | #1 |
| 1950s | 625,606 | #1 |
| 1960s | 355,240 | #1 |
| 1970s | 126,254 | #9 |
| 1980s | 95,862 | #25 |
| 1990s | 75,723 | #35 |
| 2000s | 46,337 | #46 |
| 2010s | 25,693 | #108 |
| 2020s | 12,985 | #123 |
Girl names about as popular as Mary
Questions
- Is Mary a boy or girl name?
- Mary is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Mary were girls.
- How popular is the name Mary?
- 2,230 baby girls were named Mary in the US in 2025, making it the 125th most popular girl name.
- When was Mary most popular?
- Mary peaked in 1921, when 73,984 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1, held for 76 years starting in 1880.
- How many people are named Mary?
- 4,156,654 babies have been named Mary in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,778,728 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 71.
- Where is Mary most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Mary was most common in Mississippi, at 7.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.