Meaning and history
French and Czech form of Maria, Marie has been common in France since the 13th century and was given to about 20 percent of French girls at the start of the 20th century, though its use declined steadily and it fell from the top rank in 1958. Notable bearers include Marie Antoinette, queen of France executed by guillotine during the French Revolution, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934), the Polish-French physicist and chemist who studied radioactivity with her husband Pierre. In France, it is also occasionally used as a masculine element in names such as Jean-Marie.
20062006: 521 births, rank #565
2007: 552 births, rank #554
2008: 567 births, rank #543
2009: 540 births, rank #566
2010: 518 births, rank #561
20112011: 482 births, rank #595
2012: 523 births, rank #561
2013: 509 births, rank #569
2014: 531 births, rank #576
2015: 556 births, rank #560
20162016: 535 births, rank #579
2017: 457 births, rank #646
2018: 537 births, rank #575
2019: 450 births, rank #646
2020: 473 births, rank #617
20212021: 500 births, rank #598
2022: 501 births, rank #597
2023: 457 births, rank #641
2024: 467 births, rank #632
20252025: 474 births, rank #617
Marie rose from #633 to #618 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1920, with 12,743 births.