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Maree

Girls' name

Variant of Marie

Maree has been given to 1,049 babies in the U.S. since 1894. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Maree, 2020

1 in 477,000

Maree over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maree: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maree means

Maree is a variant of Marie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maree is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /mə.ˈɹiː/ for Maree.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maree → Marie → Marie → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Origin, language, and formation

Maree is used in English and Yola.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marie and Mary.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Yola, Maree is pronounced /ˈmariː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,049 girls were recorded with the name Maree between 1894 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,227 in 1897.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maree?

Maree had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maree sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maree. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maree was born before 1955 — so the typical Maree is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
14.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
568
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1910s — 14.1% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Maree rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (26)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,227
1897

Spellings of Maree

Maree is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 53.4% against Maree's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Maree around the world

Where Maree ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    1974–1993
    #497
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1944–2012
    #871
    in 2012
  • New South Wales
    1952–1971
    #96
    in 1971

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0.

Maree by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,227
1897
Peak year
1918
26 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
1,049
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maree

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MaramMaritMargreeMargareeMarlyMareaMarryMaryaMarineMarahMarwaMareliMarayaMartieMarilyMarisMarenaMarikoMarliMarynMarleiMaralMarraMaryan

Sibling names for Maree

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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