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Marigold

#590 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Marigold has been given to 2,978 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #590 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 498 recorded.

Babies named Marigold, 2025

1 in 6,660

Marigold over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marigold: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marigold means

Marigold is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the flower. The rubber gloves are generally bright yellow in colour.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Marigold (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Marigold is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,978 girls were recorded with the name Marigold between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 498 in 2025; its best national rank was #590 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,097 in 2020 to #590 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,674 in 2015 to #590 in 2025.

How common is Marigold?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,660
498 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,230
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#590
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,615 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marigold 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,615 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marigold. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marigolds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marigold was born before 2022 — so the typical Marigold is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
71.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,917
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 71.2% of all recorded uses (2,121).

Is Marigold 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
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+507
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,084
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
7.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (498)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#590
2025

Spellings of Marigold

Marigold is not the most common spelling — Marisol is, with 92.2% against Marigold's 7.8%.

  • Marisol92.2%35,041
  • Marigold7.8%2,978

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 Marigold is used

Across 2016–2025, Marigold was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 2,326 girls, against 1 in 5,946 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 16,667).

643 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 2,326
  2. 2Utah1 in 2,778
  3. 3Washington1 in 2,857
  4. 4Maine1 in 2,941
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 3,125
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 3,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 3,846
  8. 8Idaho1 in 3,846

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.

Geographically, Marigold is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 36% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Marigold around the world

Where Marigold 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 & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,028
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #708
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marigold in other languages

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

Mariegold

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

Marigold by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#590
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 507
Best rank ever
#590
2025
Peak year
2025
498 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,978
Count in 2025
498

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

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Names with a curve like Marigold

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

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Sibling names for Marigold

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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