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Mariadejesus vs Marie

American parents have registered 542,270 Maries since 1880, against 626 Mariadejesuses. Marie is still ahead, with 474 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mariadejesus against Marie, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mariadejesus Marie

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

Marie 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 2009, when Mariadejesus had 27 and Marie had 540.

Side by side

  Mariadejesus Marie
Total US births 626542,270
Most in one year 2912,774
Babies in 2025 under 5474
Estimated living today 600179,000
Median age today 2866
Peak year 20011920
Best rank 4,209th girls13th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked617th
First recorded 19211880
Girls / boys 626 / 0540,077 / 2,193

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Maries alive today are over 66; half the Mariadejesuses are over 28. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Mariadejesus and Marie.