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Marice

Marice is a boy's name that peaked in 1976, when it was the 1,932nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2011. About 930 Marices are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Marice boys named Marice

Girls and boys called Marice

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Marice crossed from girls to boys in 1972, and has stayed there for 10 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 83% boys, and in 1987 it was 78%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 13 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,184
Estimated living today
930
Median age today
48
Peak year
1976
Best rank
1,932nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1919
Girls / boys
467 / 717

How old the living Marices are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,184 babies given the name since 1919, about 930 are alive — 78 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Marice is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1976

The most popular boys’ names the year Marice peaked:

All the names of 1976

Marice elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Ireland girls Marice 3 471st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Marice among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Marice 11

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

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Marice against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.