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Maryann

Maryann reached its high-water mark in 1943 at number 135, and has been recorded 63,005 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,769th. About 42,000 Maryanns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Maryann boys named Maryann

By the numbers

Total US births
63,005
Estimated living today
42,000
Median age today
67
Peak year
1943
Best rank
135th
Rank in 2025
1,769th
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
62,953 / 52

How old the living Maryanns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 63,005 babies given the name since 1880, about 42,000 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 23,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Maryanns

People named Maryann with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Maryann is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Maryann is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.8×), Pennsylvania (3.0×), Connecticut (2.9×), New York (2.8×).

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

Names of 1943

The most popular girls’ names the year Maryann peaked:

All the names of 1943

Maryann elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Maryann 224 1,866th
Scotland girls Maryann 63 351st
Ireland girls Maryann +1 spelling 40 576th
France girls Maryann 5 5,324th

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.

Maryann 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 Maryann 5 17

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.

Where Maryann lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 264 women called Mary Ann 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
Málaga Mary Ann 24 0.026 1,789
Alicante/Alacant Mary Ann 27 0.026 2,038
Balears, Illes Mary Ann 15 0.024 2,167
Madrid Mary Ann 82 0.022 2,040
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Mary Ann 9 0.016 3,588
Barcelona Mary Ann 47 0.015 2,699

Listed in 8 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 44 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.

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Maryann 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.