Marinette

#9,867 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Marine

Marinette has been given to 101 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #9,867 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Marinette, 2025

1 in 332,000

Marinette over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marinette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Marine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marinette means

Marinette is a diminutive of Marine.

Origin, language, and formation

Marinette is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Marinette is pronounced /ma.ʁi.nɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 101 girls were recorded with the name Marinette between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2021; its best national rank was #7,185 in 1961.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,316 in 2020 to #9,867 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marinette?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,867; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marinette 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marinette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marinettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marinette was born before 2021 — so the typical Marinette is around 4 today.

Median birth year: 2021; About 4 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 73.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 95.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 101; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 73.3% of all recorded uses (74).

Is Marinette 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: +126; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −551; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 66.7%; Peak was 2021 (15)
Years since peak: 4; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,185; 1961

Spellings of Marinette

Marinette is not the most common spelling — Marietta is, with 70.4% against Marinette's 0.47%.

Marietta70.4%15,055
Arnette4.9%1,055
Mariette4.9%1,052
Trinette4.5%956
Garnette4.4%945
Margrette4.0%850
Minette3.4%732
Marquette3.0%652

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.

Marinette around the world

Where Marinette 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.

France
1900–2022
#5,332
in 2022
Canada
2020–2020
#3,347
in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Marinette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,867
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 551
Best rank ever: #7,185; 1961
Peak year: 2021; 15 that year
First recorded: 1961
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 101
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Marinette

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

Sibling names for Marinette

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl Anabel

For a brother

Aaden Kale Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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