girls:
6.1k births since 1916
#2134 (63rd percentile)
overall:
6.1k births since 1916
#3481 (55th percentile)
The name Maribeth is the #3,481 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,061 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 55.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,134 (62.7% percentile) for all time with 6,061 births since 1916.
Maribeth first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (first recorded for girls in 1916). Birth data for Maribeth is available in 105 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Maribeth reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 26.6% percentile (ranked #564) with 103 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 112 births per million (ranked 25.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maribeth ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 6.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maribeth".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Maribeth. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.5% confident that Maribeth is pronounced as MEH-rih-behth, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-ree-BEHTH, at 22.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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