girls:
62.7k births since 1880
#506 (91st percentile)
boys:
52 births since 1933
#4534 (1st percentile)
overall:
62.8k births since 1880
#935 (88th percentile)
The name Maryann is the #935 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 62,793 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #506 (91.2% percentile) for all time with 62,741 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,534 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1933.
Maryann has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1933 for boys). Birth data for Maryann is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for girls and 9 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 Maryann has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maryann reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 78.8% percentile (ranked #134) with 1,428 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 1,428 births per million (ranked 78.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Maryann ranks #856 for girls (9.6% percentile) with 55 births per million, which is 3.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maryann reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #548) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maryann".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Maryann. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.6% confident that Maryann is pronounced as MEH-ree-AN, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-ree-an, at 36.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M EH1 R IY0 AE1 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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