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Maryse

Girls' name

Diminutive of Marie

Maryse has been given to 127 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 2010, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Maryse, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maryse: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Marie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maryse means

Maryse is a diminutive of Marie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maryse is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ma.ʁiz/ for Maryse.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maryse → Marie → Marie → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Maryse is pronounced /ma.ʁiz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 127 girls were recorded with the name Maryse between 1952 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2010; its best national rank was #5,324 in 1952.

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 Maryse?

Maryse had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maryse 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maryse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maryses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maryse was born before 1998 — so the typical Maryse is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
127
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Maryse 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (13)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,324
1952

Spellings of Maryse

Maryse is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 83.1% against Maryse's <0.01%.

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 Maryse is used

Across 1910–2025, Maryse was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Maryse has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maryse around the world

Where Maryse 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
    1909–2024
    #4,534
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #3,159
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1950–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maryse 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
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Best rank ever
#5,324
1952
Peak year
2010
13 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
127
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maryse

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

MarlyseMarrenMarsaiMarloeMarziaMarliaMareyaMarakiMarienMariemMarjanMarittaMarsaliMaripazMarialyMarlayaMaryumMarianyMaryelMarwahMaraiMaryoriMariellMaryuri

Sibling names for Maryse

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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