Marry
#14,318 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marry has been given to 1,873 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #14,318 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Marry, 2025
1 in 553,000
Marry 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marry?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,318
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marry sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marry. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marrys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marry was born before 1940 — so the typical Marry is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 14.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 779
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 14.7% of all recorded uses (276).
Is Marry 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
- +179
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,873
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 16.2%
- Peak was 1918 (37)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.5% average annual change
Spellings of Marry
Marry is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 67.2% against Marry's 0.03%.
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 Marry is used
Across 1910–2025, Marry was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 419,322 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 100,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 3Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 4Arkansas1 in —
- 5California1 in —
- 6North Carolina1 in —
- 7Texas1 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. Marry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marry around the world
Where Marry 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.
- France2003–2003#3,924in 2003
- Norway1880–1964#419in 1964
- South Australia1958–1962#647in 1962
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marry by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marry
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marry
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.