Gender-neutral · #2036 in 2025

Marion

Marion: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#2036
Born 2025
93
Peak year
1917

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Marion per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1917. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Marion has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 1% of its 1917 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 66% of children named Marion were recorded as girls and 34% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Related names

More girl names starting with M

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.