Marium
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marium has been given to 380 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 1998, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Marium, 2023
1 in 414,000
Marium 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marium?
Marium had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,205 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marium sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marium. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mariums were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marium was born before 2000 — so the typical Marium is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 31.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 54.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 339
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (119).
Is Marium 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 1998 (19)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Spellings of Marium
Marium is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 30.5% against Marium's 0.02%.
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 Marium is used
Across 1910–2025, Marium was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,478,732 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Marium has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marium around the world
Where Marium 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 & Wales1996–2024#4,193in 2024
- Scotland1992–1992#641in 1992
- Canada1993–2014#2,839in 2014
- South Australia2010–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marium by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marium
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marium
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.