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Marius

#2,555 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Marius has been given to 2,654 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #2,555 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Marius, 2025

1 in 63,800

Marius over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marius: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Latin

What Marius means

Marius belongs to the name family reached through Marius → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Marius, a Roman family name probably derived from Mars. By folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Maria.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Marius is used in English, Danish, Dutch, Faroese, French, German, Lithuanian and Norwegian and additional language sections. Its origins include Latin.

Marius comes through Latin Marius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Marius is pronounced /ˈmaː.ri.ʏs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,654 boys were recorded with the name Marius between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 2004; its best national rank was #963 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,160 in 2020 to #2,555 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,220 in 2015 to #2,555 in 2025.

How common is Marius?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 63,800
52 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,555
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
44,191 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marius sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marius was born before 2004 — so the typical Marius is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,393
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (613).

Is Marius 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
−120
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−395
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−335
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.0%
Peak was 2004 (80)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#963
1881

Spellings of Marius

Marius is not the most common spelling — Marcus is, with 31.8% against Marius's 0.35%.

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 Marius is used

Across 2016–2025, Marius was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 53,409 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Virginia1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Marius around the world

Where Marius 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
    1996–2025
    #1,466
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2002–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1900–2025
    #27
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #130
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #857
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Marius

People whose public names include Marius, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marius in other languages

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

MarioMarjanMariuszMarijMàriuMárioMariussMáriusz

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

Marius by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,555
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 395
Best rank ever
#963
1881
Peak year
2004
80 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,654
Count in 2025
52

Names similar to Marius

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

MartaviusMarinoMarlowMartezMartelMarkelMarvelMarwanMarleyMartellMarquelMarlanMarekMarkosMarcialMarlenMarkisMarloMarquanMarloweMariaMarkoMarkellMarcell

Names with a curve like Marius

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

ZachAntoniAndreiKrishnaJeronimoJacoboSloanAndreyAlenCyJaysenMarko

Sibling names for Marius

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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