Marie
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Maria/Mary, ultimately from Hebrew; first attested Godfrey filius Marie 1189 Sol
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məɹiː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 21(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 16as Maria
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 16as Maria
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Marie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #1 (measured from records)
- 11 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 679 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21 (inferred from the name graph)
12,284,478 named Maria, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maria in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, EC Ecuador and 1 more, Mary in US United States, PH Philippines, CZ Czechia and Мария in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French form of Mary, from Hebrew Miryam; meaning uncertain.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marie is read(measured from records)
Marie is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English62%
- French23%
French form of Mary, from Hebrew Miryam; meaning uncertain.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
From Hebrew Miryam via Latin Maria; French form of Mary. Name-day/saint: the Virgin Mary.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
female given name, L Maria. This was the name of the mother of Christ in the New Testament, as well as several other New Testament figures. It derives from Aramaic Maryam (Hebr. Miryam), but the vernacular forms have been influenced by the Roman family name Marius (of uncertain origin). The Hebr. name is likewise of uncertain etymology, but perhaps means ‘Wished-for Child’, from an
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #1 | 12,284,478as Maria | 1 in 17 | 12M | Maria | 306 |
| AR Argentina | #1 | ≈2,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 20 | 5.3K | Maria | 253 |
| RU Russia | #19 | ≈2,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 72 | #4 | Мария | 263 |
| US United States | #1 | 1,768,343as Mary | 1 in 188 | 1.8M | Mary | 679 |
| PH Philippines | #1 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | 27K | Mary | 225 |
| EC Ecuador | #1 | 1,042,139as Maria | 1 in 16 | 1M | Maria | 165 |
| CZ Czechia | #22 | 521,052 | 1 in 21 | 521K | Mary | 130 |
| SV El Salvador | #2 | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 16 | 627 | Maria | 110 |
12,284,478 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; INEC — civil registry names; This page discusses the popularity of names in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and Puno, Peru in the 1980s, published by Maybe i; MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, French form of Mary, used today in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
nickname for a man newly married, from the past participle of marier ‘to marry’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Léon Walrasb. 1834FRnot in their usual nameFrench mathematical economist (*1834 – †1910)
- Jean Jaurèsb. 1859FRnot in their usual nameFrench / Occitan socialist leader (1859-1914)
- Jean Monnetb. 1888FRnot in their usual nameFrench political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979)
- Leopold III of Belgiumb. 1901BEnot in their usual nameking of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)
- Marguerite Yourcenarb. 1903USnot in their usual nameFrench novelist and essayist (1903-1987)
- Juliana of the Netherlandsb. 1909NLnot in their usual nameQueen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980 (1909-2004)
- Ruud Lubbersb. 1939NLnot in their usual namePrime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994
- Annie Ernauxb. 1940FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer (born 1940)
- Chris Evertb. 1954USnot in their usual nameAmerican former tennis player (born 1954)
- Filip van Belgiëb. 1960BEnot in their usual nameKing of the Belgians since 2013
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 163 sources across 85 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,784 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,964 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 34 | — |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Marie come from?
- French form of Mary, from Hebrew Miryam; meaning uncertain. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Marie a male or female name?
- Marie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Marie?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Miriam are forms of the same name in other languages; Marilyn, Mae and Marianne are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Marie have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 million people named Maria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marie is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 21 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Marie mean?
- In English, from Maria/Mary, ultimately from Hebrew; first attested Godfrey filius Marie 1189 Sol
- How do you pronounce Marie?
- A machine transcription gives /məɹiː/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Marie?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 521,052 people named Marie, about 1 in 21 residents.
- How common is Marie compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Marie is the most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marie” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.