Maryse
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Derived form of Marie; from Hebrew, meaning 'drop of the sea'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maʁiz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maryse is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.7K
- CACanada≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Derived form of Marie; from Hebrew, meaning 'drop of the sea'.
Sources 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #279 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 92K | Maryse | 308 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #274 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Maryse | 4 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Maryse | 4 |
| CA Canada | #983 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 5 | Maryse | 148 |
| BE Belgium | #625 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 5 | Maryse | 69 |
| US United States | — | 1,149 | 1 in 290K | 1.1K | Maryse | 187 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 10 | — | 10 |
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 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)
- Maryse Bastiéb. 1898FRFrench aviator (1898-1952)
- Maryse Hilszb. 1901FRFrench aviator (1901–1946)
- Maryse Condéb. 1934FRFrench author from Guadeloupe
- Maryse Joissains-Masinib. 1942FRFrench politician
- Maryse Wolinskib. 1943FRFrench journalist, novelist and writer (1943-2021)
- Kim McLaganb. 1948GBnot in their usual nameBritish model (1948-2006)
- Marisa Sistachb. 1952MXnot in their usual nameMexican film director (b. 1952)
- Maryse Albertib. 1954FRFrench cinematographer
- Maryse Bossièreb. 1954FRFrench diplomat
- Maryse Ouelletb. 1983CAFrench-Canadian professional wrestler, model and business woman
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 44 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2015 | 92K | #3,262 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,268 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1991 | 76 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1992 | 67 | — |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 10 | #86 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #11,268 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2018 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2012 | 5 | #1,484 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- 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).
- In which country does Maryse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Maryse in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maryse.
- How do you pronounce Maryse?
- A machine transcription gives /maʁiz/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Maryse a male or female name?
- Maryse 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 Maryse?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maryseThe 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, “Maryse” — the 279th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.