Marit

#7,742 in 2025Girls' name

Pearl, through Margit

Marit has been given to 800 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #7,742 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Marit, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marit: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margit

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marit means

Marit belongs to the name family reached through Marit → Margit → Margareta. Its meaning is “pearl”.

Origin, language, and formation

Marit is used in Estonian, Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret, Margareta and Margit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 800 girls were recorded with the name Marit between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,276 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,813 in 2020 to #7,742 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,859 in 2015 to #7,742 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 Marit?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 237,000; 14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 115,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,742; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 164,137 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marit 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marit was born before 1993 — so the typical Marit is around 32 today.

Median birth year: 1993; About 32 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 40.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 788; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Marit 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: +2,252; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +71; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +117; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.93×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 66.7%; Peak was 2017 (21)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,276; 1967

Spellings of Marit

Marit is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 59.1% against Marit's 0.01%.

Mary59.1%4,141,481
Maria8.1%566,111
Marie7.7%540,077
Marion2.7%189,218
Marian2.0%141,944
Marcia1.9%133,320
Mariah1.6%115,096
Margie1.5%106,004

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 Marit is used

Across 1910–2025, Marit was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 175,774 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Minnesota1 in 33,333
2New York1 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. Marit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marit around the world

Where Marit 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.

Norway
1880–2025
#424
in 2025
South Australia
1970–2001
#711
in 2001

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marit by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,742
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 71
Best rank ever: #3,276; 1967
Peak year: 2017; 21 that year
First recorded: 1947
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 800
Count in 2025: 14

Names similar to Marit

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

Maram Marea Marly Marlei Maral Marily Marra Marry Maraya Marine Marya Marah Marwa Mareli Martie Maris Marena Mariko Marli Maryn Marne Mardi Berit Maryan

Sibling names for Marit

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 Kendyl Anabel Hayleigh

For a brother

Aaden Kale Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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