The French and Czech variant of Maria, Marie also goes back to the Hebrew name Miryam, possibly meaning ‘sea of bitterness’, ‘beloved’, or ‘rebelliousness’.
Marie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Marie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Marie ranks 553. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Marie. In total, there are currently 463,188 people – children, adults and seniors – named Marie living in the United States, which is approximately 0.14 % of the entire population.
History tends to focus on the most famous and best. But even those who play second fiddle leave their mark: Marie is one of those names without which the orchestra would be incomplete. In fact, Marie has reached the SmartGenius top ranking #7 more than once, although the last time was some while ago, way back in the last century in 1904. But even though the peak of its popularity was many decades ago, the name Marie has been given to newborn girls every year since records began. Marie is of exceptional enduring popularity, conveying the special vibes of the20th century.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The popularity of the name Marie peaked long ago, but the name has nevertheless arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, it ranked #545 in our statistics - perhaps a far cry from when your grandparents or great-grandparents were kids and Marie made it into the top ten more than once, but still: traditional names often prove to be perennial favorites - so, maybe it's only a matter of time before Marie tops out again.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Marie. Because: There are women and girls named Marie in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Marie is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Louisiana, where Marie ranks on place 24. The greatest chance of meeting Marie, however, is in Rhode Island, where one in 158 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 333 women and girls and in Nevada, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 823 women and girls for their name before you once get Marie as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Marie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Marie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marie, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marie sounds like this:
