Marion

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: French

Meaning

Marion is a unisex given name. As a feminine given name, it is a French diminutive of Marie that has been in use by English speakers since the Middle Ages. It was also occasionally considered a form of Margaret or Margery.

From Wikipedia

Marion first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 61 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1962 with 363 babies (rank #54 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Marion

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

8,232
Total babies (all years)
61
Years in the data
363
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
1952267#58
1953278#56
1954299#56
1955281#60
1956305#59
1957305#61
1958349#53
1959339#55
1960312#61
1961320#61
1962363#54
1963338#57
1964362#56
1965357#57
1966300#68
1967322#62
1968281#75
1969277#81
1970255#85
1971227#89
1972188#105
1973185#94
1974116#145
1975121#135
1976111#145
197788#182
197899#164
197996#165
198089#186
1981104#159
198289#175
198376#205
198486#186
198567#228
198668#231
198748#293
198840#330
198945#312
199045#322
199134#403
199237#376
199344#333
199427#469
199526#466
199619#567
199720#551
199821#533
199914#674
200016#626
200113#687
200215#645
20039#821
200412#692
20057#911
20066#976
20072#1,437
20082#1,432
20095#1,014
20112#1,312
20122#1,176
20151#301