girls:
65.3k births since 1886
#490 (91st percentile)
boys:
49 births since 1941
#4537 (1st percentile)
overall:
65.4k births since 1886
#911 (88th percentile)
The name Marianne is the #911 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65,361 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 88.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #490 (91.4% percentile) for all time with 65,312 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #4,537 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1941.
Marianne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for girls and 1941 for boys). Birth data for Marianne is available in 132 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (132 years for girls and 8 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Marianne has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marianne reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 82.1% percentile (ranked #138) with 1,440 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 1,440 births per million (ranked 82.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marianne ranks #848 for girls (10.5% percentile) with 59 births per million, which is 4.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marianne reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #645) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1965.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marianne".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marianne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.2% confident that Marianne is pronounced as MEH-ree-AN, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-ree-an, at 32.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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