Marice
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marice has been given to 1,184 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1976, with 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% boys, 39% girls all-time.
Babies named Marice, 2011
1 in 333,000
Marice over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Marice over time
In 2011, Marice went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Marice?
Marice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 333,000
- 11 of 3,657,935 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 173,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 230,500 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marice sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 230,500 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marices were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marice was born before 1979 — so the typical Marice is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 26.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 648
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (193).
Is Marice 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (25)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.4% average annual change
Spellings of Marice
Marice is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 22.8% against Marice's 0.11%.
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 Marice is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Marice was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,422,413 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Marice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Marice is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Marice was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 931,388 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
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. Marice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marice around the world
Where Marice 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.
- Ireland1972–1972#471in 1972
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Marice by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Marice
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marice
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.