Mary

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: English

Meaning

Mary is a feminine given name, the English form of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek name Μαρία, María or Μαριάμ, Mariam, found in the Septuagint and New Testament.

From Wikipedia

Mary first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 35 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1960 with 537 babies (rank #29 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Mary

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Mary yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

8,618
Total babies (all years)
35
Years in the data
537
Peak in a single year

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952433#19
1953411#21
1954350#28
1955372#22
1956386#23
1957430#22
1958400#24
1959389#26
1960537#29
1961519#28
1962417#35
1963401#36
1964449#27
1965338#37
1966347#35
1967286#42
1968277#48
1969245#56
1970231#58
1971215#67
1972186#74
1973132#86
1974140#81
1975102#87
197682#92
197790#92
197889#92
197999#92
198081#97
198177#100
200879#99
20148#212
20159#200
20161#2,056
201710#160