Maryse

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Derived form of Marie; from Hebrew, meaning 'drop of the sea' (Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education))

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025

/ma.ʁiz/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary

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Maryse is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

  • FRFrance≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GAGabon≈1 in 1.3K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 2.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈52,000 people, est.

Record sources
308 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Gabon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Maryse

  • French:/ma.ʁiz/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Derived form of Marie; from Hebrew, meaning 'drop of the sea'.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Maryse 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.

Where Maryse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#279≈52,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K92KMaryse308
CD Congo - Kinshasa#274≈29,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Maryse4
BE Belgium#625≈4,600 est.≈1 in 2.6K5Maryse69
CA Canada#983≈4,400 est.≈1 in 9.4K5Maryse148
GA Gabon—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 1.3K10—10
US United States—1,1491 in 290K1.1KMaryse187

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Maryse is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Máryse

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Maryse is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, French diminutive/variant of Marie; from Hebrew Miryam.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, dough scraper; a spatula with a soft blade used to scrape out bowls or other containers

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, alternative form of mareys

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)
1940196019802000Maryse Joissains-Masini, b. 1942Maryse Alberti, b. 1954Maryse Ouellet, b. 1983

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)
InformalBonjour Maryse,Hi Maryse, (English)

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)

44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Maryse mean, and where does it come from?
Derived form of Marie; from Hebrew, meaning 'drop of the sea'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
What are other forms of the name Maryse?
In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Maryse?
In French /ma.ʁiz/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people named Maryse?
Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Maryse in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maryse. After it come Congo - Kinshasa, Belgium, Canada and Gabon; the country table on this page ranks them.
Is Maryse a male or female name?
Maryse is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2015), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
How common is the name Maryse?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,149 people named Maryse in 2020, about 1 in 290 thousand residents.
How common is Maryse compared with other names?
In France, Maryse is the 279th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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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, “Maryse” — ranked 3262nd in France (INSEE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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