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Marialuisa vs Marie

American parents have registered 542,270 Maries since 1880, against 647 Marialuisas. Marie is still ahead, with 474 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Marialuisa 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 2024, when Marialuisa had 23 and Marie had 467.

Side by side

  Marialuisa Marie
Total US births 647542,270
Most in one year 2712,774
Babies in 2025 10474
Estimated living today 630179,000
Median age today 2666
Peak year 20071920
Best rank 5,230th girls13th girls
Rank in 2025 9,457th617th
First recorded 19291880
Girls / boys 647 / 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 Marialuisas are over 26. That is 40 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Marialuisa Marie
Italy 2,106 Maria Luisa1,171

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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