# Mari (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mari/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Japanese |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmɑɹi/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,645 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 66 / 16,579 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 949, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 128 | 1,663 |
| 2012 | 124 | 1,696 |
| 2013 | 110 | 1,840 |
| 2014 | 99 | 2,005 |
| 2015 | 87 | 2,185 |
| 2016 | 105 | 1,921 |
| 2017 | 120 | 1,760 |
| 2018 | 110 | 1,848 |
| 2019 | 114 | 1,796 |
| 2020 | 94 | 1,997 |
| 2021 | 139 | 1,522 |
| 2022 | 150 | 1,471 |
| 2023 | 156 | 1,435 |
| 2024 | 143 | 1,517 |
| 2025 | 129 | 1,620 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | 12,643 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,327 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,322 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,353 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,947 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,472 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,762 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,546 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,510 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 35 | 989 |
| 2012 | 30 | 1,130 |
| 2013 | 36 | 999 |
| 2014 | 29 | 1,177 |
| 2015 | 32 | 1,088 |
| 2016 | 34 | 1,031 |
| 2017 | 34 | 1,043 |
| 2018 | 27 | 1,234 |
| 2019 | 29 | 1,153 |
| 2020 | 29 | 1,127 |
| 2021 | 36 | 957 |
| 2022 | 28 | 1,180 |
| 2023 | 38 | 921 |
| 2024 | 37 | 952 |
| 2025 | 32 | 1,051 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Mari

- Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician
- Mari Beyleryan, Armenian activist (1877-1915)
- Mari Kalkun, Estonian singer-songwriter and musician (born 1986)
- Mari Eder, Finnish biathlete
- Mari Rantanen, Finnish politician
- Mari Holden, American racing cyclist
- Mari Sánchez, Colombian weightlifter
- Mari Blanchard, American actress
- Mari Aldon, American actress (1925-2004)
- Joan Mari Torrealdai, Basque writer, sociologist, journalist, and bibliographer
- Mari Saat, Estonian writer and economist (born 1947)
- Mari Morrow, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.