Marybeth

#6,044 in 2025Girls' name

Combination of Mary and Beth

Marybeth has been given to 10,260 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #6,044 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 488 recorded.

Babies named Marybeth, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marybeth: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Mary and Beth

coinages

What Marybeth means

Marybeth is a modern given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marybeth is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mɛɹ.ɪ.ˈbɛθ/ for Marybeth.

The naming story behind Marybeth

The reference identifies Marybeth as a combination of Mary and Beth. This is a documented two-name formation.

The histories of Mary and Beth belong to their separate source entries. The source does not identify every bearer’s family motivation.

Origin, language, and formation

Marybeth is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Marybeth is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mary and Beth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,260 girls were recorded with the name Marybeth between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 488 in 1961; its best national rank was #442 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,107 in 2020 to #6,044 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,860 in 2015 to #6,044 in 2025.

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 Marybeth?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 166,000; 20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 80,400; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,044; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 114,896 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marybeth 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marybeth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marybeths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marybeth was born before 1964 — so the typical Marybeth is around 61 today.

Median birth year: 1964; About 61 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 37.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 6.0%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 9,319; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (3,801).

Is Marybeth 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: +790; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,063; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,816; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.33×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 4.1%; Peak was 1961 (488)
Years since peak: 64; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #442; 1962

Spellings of Marybeth

Marybeth is the most-used spelling, taking 54.3% of the 18,890 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Marybeth54.3%10,260
Maribeth32.3%6,098
Sarabeth6.9%1,300
Marybel3.6%683
Marybell2.9%549

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 Marybeth is used

Across 1910–2025, Marybeth was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 16,914 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Massachusetts1 in 5,000
2Connecticut1 in 5,556
3New Jersey1 in 5,556
4New York1 in 7,143
5Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
6Illinois1 in 14,286
7Wisconsin1 in 14,286
8Michigan1 in 16,667

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

Marybeth around the world

Where Marybeth 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
1996–2011
#5,785
in 2011
Canada
1994–1994
#1,986
in 1994
South Australia
1992–1992
#704
in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Marybeth

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

Marybeth Sant-PriceSprinter
b. 1995
Marybeth TinningSerial killer
b. 1942

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.

Marybeth in other languages

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

Mary Beth

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

Marybeth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,044
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,063
Best rank ever: #442; 1962
Peak year: 1961; 488 that year
First recorded: 1909
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 10,260
Count in 2025: 20

Names similar to Marybeth

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

Maribeth Marisela Maricela Marilynn Maryanne Maryjane Marietta Marleigh Margareth Marianna Marcelle Mariella Margret Marielle Marlena Maranda Mariela Marcela Marjory Marylou Maryellen Marilee Mariann Marceline

Names with a curve like Marybeth

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

Jacquline Deann Lauri Suzette Teressa Lesa Danette Dawna Deirdre Cindi Kris Lynnette

Sibling names for Marybeth

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

Juli Tamera Carmel Johnna Deirdre Janine Lynnette Jeanie

For a brother

Cornell Randell Timmy Al Ernie Alphonso Bernie Darrel

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