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Marni

#4,717 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly of the sea, through Marnie

Marni has been given to 3,420 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #4,717 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 253 recorded.

Babies named Marni, 2025

1 in 114,000

Marni over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marni: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly of the sea, through Marnie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marni means

Marni belongs to the name family reached through Marni → Marnie → Marina. Its meaning is “of the sea”.

Origin, language, and formation

Marni is used in English and Faroese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marnie and Marina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,415 girls were recorded with the name Marni between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 253 in 1969; its best national rank was #625 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,527 in 2020 to #4,717 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,279 in 2015 to #4,717 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Marni between 1972 and 1972. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1972; its best national rank was #5,476 in 1972.

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 Marni?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,717
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marni 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marnis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marni was born before 1973 — so the typical Marni is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,391
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (1,315).

Is Marni 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
+5,280
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,810
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,562
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.5%
Peak was 1969 (253)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#625
1969

Spellings of Marni

Marni is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 66.9% against Marni's 0.06%.

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 Marni is used

Across 1910–2025, Marni was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 73,234 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Utah1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 50,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 50,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 50,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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. Marni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marni around the world

Where Marni 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
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2016–2016
    #868
    in 2016
  • France
    2010–2025
    #4,181
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,131
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #338
    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 Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, 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 Marni

People whose public names include Marni, 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.

Marni in other languages

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

Marnie

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

Marni by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,717
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,810
Best rank ever
#625
1969
Peak year
1969
253 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,415
Count in 2025
29

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,476
1972
Peak year
1972
5 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1972
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marni

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

MarynMartyMarliMartiMarisMarwaMarahMaryaMarinMarryMarlyMarloMarelyMariyaMarlieMaritaMariluMarvelMaryahMarlenMaramMarlowMarnieMaren

Names with a curve like Marni

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

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Sibling names for Marni

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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