girls:
141.5k births since 1880
#280 (95th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1881
#3274 (29th percentile)
overall:
142.9k births since 1880
#522 (93rd percentile)
The name Marian is the #522 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 142,862 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #280 (95.1% percentile) for all time with 141,512 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,274 (28.6% percentile) for all time with 1,350 births since 1881.
Marian has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys).
The name Marian has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marian reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 89.7% percentile (ranked #64) with 3,239 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 3,250 births per million (ranked 88.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marian ranks #746 for girls (21.2% percentile) with 118 births per million, which is 3.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marian reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 7.5% percentile (ranked #510) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 69 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marian".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Marion. View all variations of Marion.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Marian", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 39 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Marion" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Marion..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Marian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.9% confident that Marian is pronounced as MEH-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAIR-yuhn, at 19.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M EH1 R IY0 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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