# Marion (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marion/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 261,713 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 72,495 / 189,218 (72% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 248, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Middle English Marion, from Old French Marion, a diminutive of Marie, used in England since the Middle Ages.

## 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 | 111 | 1,826 |
| 2012 | 109 | 1,855 |
| 2013 | 140 | 1,556 |
| 2014 | 142 | 1,541 |
| 2015 | 150 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 159 | 1,454 |
| 2017 | 142 | 1,550 |
| 2018 | 134 | 1,606 |
| 2019 | 139 | 1,556 |
| 2020 | 106 | 1,847 |
| 2021 | 127 | 1,647 |
| 2022 | 121 | 1,729 |
| 2023 | 125 | 1,664 |
| 2024 | 107 | 1,877 |
| 2025 | 93 | 2,044 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 102 | 1,557 |
| 2012 | 110 | 1,475 |
| 2013 | 97 | 1,599 |
| 2014 | 82 | 1,822 |
| 2015 | 77 | 1,905 |
| 2016 | 77 | 1,914 |
| 2017 | 77 | 1,889 |
| 2018 | 76 | 1,949 |
| 2019 | 70 | 2,074 |
| 2020 | 57 | 2,360 |
| 2021 | 40 | 3,057 |
| 2022 | 61 | 2,341 |
| 2023 | 59 | 2,354 |
| 2024 | 62 | 2,302 |
| 2025 | 54 | 2,504 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2015 | 13 | 2,070 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,674 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,519 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Marion

- Marion Cotillard, French actress and model (born 1975)
- Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
- Marion Jones, American athlete
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, American novelist and editor (1930–1999)
- Marion Maréchal, French politician (born 1989)
- Marion Davies, American actress (1897–1961)
- Marion Ramsey, American actress (1947–2021)
- Marion Rung, Finnish singer
- Marion Leonard, American actress (1881–1956)
- Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (1879–1965)
- Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, German journalist (1909–2002)
- Charles Marion Russell, American artist (1864-1926)

## 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.