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 ฮœฮฑฯฮฏฮฑ, Marรญa or ฮœฮฑฯฮนฮฌฮผ, 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 โ€” 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

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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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