BabyNameScore

Marie

mə·REE · 2 syllables

Marie feels distinctive without creating everyday friction in daily use.

87/100

Strong Practical Fit

Balanced across pronunciation, everyday use, lifetime fit and international use.

Name Profile

  1. Pronunciation & Spelling

    Effortless

    A documented English pronunciation is on file: mə-REE.

    91/100

  2. Everyday Use

    Low risk

    95/100

  3. Growing Up

    Strong lifetime fit

    Works comfortably across child and adult settings.

    82/100

  4. International Use

    Broad international fit

    Works cleanly across the assessed languages and writing systems.

    85/100

NAME DETAILS

CLOSE SPELLINGS
Mari
Maree
OTHER-LANGUAGE FORM
Mary
ORIGIN & HISTORY

About the name

Marie's meaning rides on Maria/Miriam, whose etymology is explicitly disputed among scholars: proposed readings include "sea of bitterness," "rebelliousness," and "wished-for child," alongside a competing theory that the name is originally Egyptian, possibly from mry ("beloved") or mr ("love"). No single meaning is settled.

  1. Maria (Latin, from Greek Μαρία, from Hebrew מִרְיָם / Miriam).
  2. Mythological and religious contextVia Maria/Miriam, Marie carries the weight of the New Testament figure of Mary, mother of Jesus, in Christian tradition; this religious association belongs to the source name Maria rather than to any independent religious content documented for the "Marie" spelling itself.
POPULARITY

Marie over time

United States
#618RANK

Rank #618 gives national context, not a classroom forecast.

Uncommon in current U.S. usage. Ranked #618 in the U.S., 2025.

SourceU.S. Social Security Administration · 2025 release

Pronunciation & Forms

SAY IT

mə·REE

STRESS ON THE SECOND SYLLABLE

CLOSE SPELLINGS
  • Mari
  • Maree
OTHER-LANGUAGE FORMS
  • Maria (Latin and multiple languages)
  • MaryEN
PRACTICAL LIFE

How This Name Lives

AT SCHOOL & DAY TO DAY

Short and phonetically simple for a child to say and spell in English, French, or German contexts alike; its brevity offers little built-in nickname flexibility of its own.

INTO ADULTHOOD

Reads as classic, formal, and internationally recognizable for an adult woman; carries serious historical weight (Marie Curie, Marie Antoinette) without a strong generational marker, since it never fully left use even as its US ranking declined from historic highs.

Cultural Footprint

Marie was exceptionally common in France at the start of the 20th century, given to roughly 20 percent of French girls, before declining steadily through the century; it is also used across Czech, German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, and Albanian-speaking regions, and is occasionally used as a masculine middle name in France in pairings such as Jean-Marie.

TRACEABLE ORIGIN
  1. Marie AntoinetteQueen of France, executed 1793
  2. Marie Skłodowska-Curiephysicist/chemist, 1867-1934

Names around it

MarionMaria
EDITORIAL SYNTHESIS

The Decision

Marie is spelled without unusual letter patterns, and it holds up in everyday use. Surname-dependent compatibility remains unassessed until a surname is added.

STRENGTH

A documented English pronunciation is on file. Uses standard characters that systems widely handle cleanly.

BEST FIT

Everyday Use is the strongest-scoring part of this name — no obvious nickname traps, rhymes, or initial issues detected.

FULL-NAME CHECK

See how it works with a surname.

Marie