Marje

Girls' name

Variant of Maarja

Marje has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 1997, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Marje, 1997

1 in 725,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marje: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Maarja

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marje means

Marje is a variant of Maarja.

Origin, language, and formation

Marje is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maarja.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Marje between 1997 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1997; its best national rank was #15,219 in 1997.

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 Marje?

Marje had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997: 1 in 725,000; 5 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only: 1 in 348,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 502,488 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marje 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 1997 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 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marje. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marjes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marje was born before 1997 — so the typical Marje is around 28 today.

Median birth year: 1997; About 28 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Marje 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1997 (5)
Years since peak: 28; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #15,219; 1997

Spellings of Marje

Marje is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 67.1% against Marje's <0.01%.

Mary67.1%4,141,481
Maria9.2%566,111
Marie8.7%540,077
Mae1.9%114,835
Margie1.7%106,004
Mamie1.3%77,907
Mable0.86%53,251
Maude0.74%45,754

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.

Marje by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #15,219; 1997
Peak year: 1997; 5 that year
First recorded: 1997
Last recorded: 1997
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marje

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

Marel Marke Marek Marba Mariami Marsana Marfa Marey Marvil Marval Martee Marsue Marish Marini Marike Markey Marsea Markki Maryka Marhia Maryha Mareme Mariae Maraam

Sibling names for Marje

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

Dasia Yasmeen Bryana Star Iman Cydney Kalie Reilly

For a brother

Samual Stephon Austyn Claudio Demarco Dontae Ronaldo Deion

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