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Maria vs Maryfrances

American parents have registered 570,389 Marias since 1880, against 937 Maryfranceses. Maria is still ahead, with 2,893 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maria against Maryfrances, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maria Maryfrances

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Maria has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1916, when Maria had 1,276 and Maryfrances had 10.

Side by side

  Maria Maryfrances
Total US births 570,389937
Most in one year 10,19731
Babies in 2025 2,8938
Estimated living today 466,000760
Median age today 4546
Peak year 19641963
Best rank 41st girls2,131st girls
Rank in 2025 87th10,917th
First recorded 18801913
Girls / boys 566,111 / 4,278937 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maria and Maryfrances.