Marion
About 261,713 American babies have been named Marion since 1880, most of them around 1924. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,036th. About 64,000 Marions are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marion boys named Marion
Girls and boys called Marion
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Marion crossed from boys to girls in 2013, having already crossed in 1885 and 2003, and has stayed there for 13 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 76% girls, and in 2025 it was 63%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 146 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
- 261,713
- Estimated living today
- 64,000
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 46th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,036th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 189,218 / 72,495
How old the living Marions are
born that year still alive today
Of the 261,713 babies given the name since 1880, about 64,000 are alive — 24 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 40,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 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 the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Middle English Marion, from Old French Marion, a diminutive of Marie, used in England since the Middle Ages.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marions
- Marion Cotillard (born 1975)French actress
- Marion Bartoli (born 1984)French tennis player
- Marion Jones (born 1975)American athlete
- Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999)American novelist and editor
- Marion Maréchal (born 1989)French politician
- Marion Ross (born 1928)American actress
- Marion Raven (born 1984)Norwegian singer
- Marion Ramsey (1947–2021)American actress
People named Marion with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marion is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marion is most concentrated in Vermont (3.7×), South Carolina (2.6×), Maine (2.1×), Massachusetts (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Marion peaked:
Marion elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Marion | 125,465 | 5th |
| Belgium girls | Marion | 2,678 | 71st |
| Norway girls | Marion | 1,929 | 116th |
| Austria girls | Marion | 1,199 | 44th |
| Ireland girls | Marion | 1,051 | 137th |
| Switzerland girls | Marion | 764 | 83rd |
| Scotland girls | Marion | 764 | 91st |
| New Zealand girls | Marion | 370 | 57th |
| England and Wales girls | Marion | 245 | 1,502nd |
| France boys | Marion | 180 | 827th |
| Poland girls | Marion | 5 birth registrations | 594th |
| England and Wales boys | Marion | 3 | 5,137th |
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.
Marion: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Marion | 194 | 0.016% | 156th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Marion | 568 | 0.131% | 32nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Marion | 2 | 0.003% | 170th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Marion is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.18% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Marion: rank by region
In 2025, Marion was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Marion | 836 | 5 |
| Wallonia | Marion | 86 | 28 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marion appears in the lists for Province of Liège (65th), Province of Namur (68th) and Province of Hainaut (90th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Marion 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Marion | 8,761 | 11,788 |
| Finland girls | Marion | 102 | 282 |
| the Netherlands boys | Marion | 29 | 253 |
| Finland boys | Marion | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Where Marion lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 548 women called Marion were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Marion | 59 | 0.094 | 818 |
| Palmas, Las | Marion | 44 | 0.075 | 1,262 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Marion | 76 | 0.074 | 1,001 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Marion | 39 | 0.070 | 1,202 |
| Málaga | Marion | 52 | 0.057 | 1,072 |
| Girona | Marion | 17 | 0.041 | 1,458 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marion against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.