Marielouise
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marielouise has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1922, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Marielouise, 2010
1 in 616,000
Marielouise 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Marielouise?
Marielouise had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 296,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,971 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marielouise sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marielouise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marielouises were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marielouise was born before 1963 — so the typical Marielouise is around 62 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 56
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Marielouise 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 1922 (11)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.1% average annual change
Spellings of Marielouise
Marielouise is not the most common spelling — Marylouise is, with 95.1% against Marielouise's 4.9%.
- Marylouise95.1%1,926
- Marielouise4.9%99
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.
Marielouise around the world
Where Marielouise 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.
- England & Wales1999–2010#4,688in 2010
- Scotland1976–1976#516in 1976
- France1900–2025#1,681in 2025
- Canada1991–2023#3,391in 2023
- South Australia1952–1985#671in 1985
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marielouise by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marielouise
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marielouise
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.