girls:
189k births since 1880
#204 (96th percentile)
boys:
72.4k births since 1880
#386 (92nd percentile)
overall:
261.4k births since 1880
#303 (96th percentile)
The name Marion is the #303 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 261,392 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #204 (96.4% percentile) for all time with 189,015 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #386 (91.6% percentile) for all time with 72,377 births since 1880.
Marion has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Marion has been given predominantly to girls, with 72.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 67.8% of babies named Marion were girls. Interestingly, until around 1885, the name was more popular for boys (53.9% boys from 1880 to 1884), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (72.5% girls from 1885 to 2023).
For girls, Marion reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 93.1% percentile (ranked #42) with 4,542 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 4,780 births per million (ranked 92.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Marion ranks #828 for girls (12.6% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marion reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 81.6% percentile (ranked #102) with 1,508 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 1,596 births per million (ranked 63.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marion ranks #857 for boys (5.9% percentile) with 32 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marion".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.8% confident that Marion is pronounced as MEH-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAIR-yuhn, at 16.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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