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Marye

Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Mary

Marye has been given to 1,557 babies in the U.S. since 1890. 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 1920, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Marye, 2019

1 in 694,000

Marye over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marye: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Mary

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marye means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Marye is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mary, Marie, Maria and מרים.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,557 girls were recorded with the name Marye between 1890 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 47 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,067 in 1915.

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 Marye?

Marye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marye 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maryes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marye was born before 1930 — so the typical Marye is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
360
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Choose a decade

1920s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (372).

Is Marye 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
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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 1920 (47)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,067
1915

Spellings of Marye

Marye is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 62.2% against Marye's 0.02%.

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 Marye is used

Across 1910–2025, Marye was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 477,975 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Indiana1 in —
  3. 3Missouri1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in —
  6. 6Tennessee1 in —
  7. 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. Marye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marye around the world

Where Marye 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.

  • France
    2009–2009
    #6,263
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Marye 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
#1,067
1915
Peak year
1920
47 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
1,557
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marye

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

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Sibling names for Marye

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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