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Maribeth

#6,468 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Maribeth has been given to 6,098 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #6,468 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1957, with 216 recorded.

Babies named Maribeth, 2025

1 in 184,000

Maribeth 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maribeth: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maribeth means

Maribeth is a given name.

The naming story behind Maribeth

Wikidata records Maribeth as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q115118934, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,098 girls were recorded with the name Maribeth between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 216 in 1957; its best national rank was #666 in 1957.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,750 in 2020 to #6,468 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,484 in 2015 to #6,468 in 2025.

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.

How common is Maribeth?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,468
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maribeth 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 2025 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maribeth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maribeths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maribeth was born before 1962 — so the typical Maribeth is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,198
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (1,666).

Is Maribeth 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
−152
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,282
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,016
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.3%
Peak was 1957 (216)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#666
1957

Spellings of Maribeth

Maribeth is not the most common spelling — Maribel is, with 51.5% against Maribeth's 12.6%.

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.

Where Maribeth is used

Across 1910–2025, Maribeth was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 31,559 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 12,500
  2. 2Ohio1 in 16,667
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 20,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 25,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maribeth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Maribeth

People whose public names include Maribeth, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maribeth in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maribeth. Linked forms have their own page here.

Maribet

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maribeth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,468
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,282
Best rank ever
#666
1957
Peak year
1957
216 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,098
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Maribeth

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

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Names with a curve like Maribeth

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maribeth, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Maribeth

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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