Marykay
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marykay has been given to 937 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1961, with 72 recorded.
Babies named Marykay, 2024
1 in 478,000
Marykay 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marykay?
Marykay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marykay sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marykay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marykays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marykay was born before 1962 — so the typical Marykay is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 47.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 844
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (444).
Is Marykay 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 1961 (72)
- Years since peak
- 64
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 59.1% average annual change
Spellings of Marykay
Marykay is not the most common spelling — Maryam is, with 52.1% against Marykay's 3.5%.
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 Marykay is used
Across 1910–2025, Marykay was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 190,618 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 100,000
- 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 4Wisconsin1 in 100,000
- 5Michigan1 in —
- 6New Jersey1 in —
- 7New York1 in —
- 8Ohio1 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. Marykay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marykay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marykay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marykay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.