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The name Marion is of French origin, and means bitter or defiant. The table below indicates the number of times the name Marion has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Marion**
Use of the Name Marion for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
69,189	12,383	2,190	130	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Marion has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Marion last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1997, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Marion**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	80	189	137	115
1881	82	163	143	110
1882	93	157	128	141
1883	87	163	116	184
1884	86	184	133	181
1885	103	141	126	198
1886	88	182	113	273
1887	105	131	118	254
1888	105	162	114	322
1889	107	153	115	331
1890	116	137	106	386
1891	116	121	99	413
1892	108	166	95	497
1893	117	139	93	532
1894	111	154	89	587
1895	115	148	69	856
1896	110	172	67	987
1897	113	153	60	994
1898	111	166	61	1,086
1899	112	153	63	973
1900	124	189	66	1,197
1901	107	159	63	962
1902	108	176	66	1,034
1903	104	188	62	1,042
1904	109	198	65	1,109
1905	127	170	65	1,141
1906	119	181	63	1,182
1907	106	226	63	1,251
1908	109	233	63	1,347
1909	111	247	58	1,442
1910	108	287	59	1,699
1911	110	346	58	1,740
1912	112	679	55	2,513
1913	111	770	51	2,842
1914	115	980	50	3,539
1915	112	1,298	50	4,453
1916	112	1,353	47	5,030
1917	108	1,414	45	5,371
1918	106	1,539	45	5,592
1919	106	1,492	44	5,155
1920	108	1,601	43	5,740
1921	102	1,713	43	5,811
1922	109	1,629	42	5,667
1923	105	1,670	44	5,711
1924	112	1,609	46	6,041
1925	109	1,612	47	5,578
1926	113	1,627	47	5,360
1927	117	1,593	51	5,199
1928	118	1,505	47	5,419
1929	118	1,447	53	4,631
1930	126	1,394	60	4,297
1931	132	1,306	66	3,762
1932	134	1,309	73	3,488
1933	133	1,192	73	3,196
1934	139	1,131	86	2,880
1935	134	1,177	88	2,813
1936	148	1,047	93	2,581
1937	139	1,117	109	2,313
1938	145	1,138	119	2,147
1939	155	1,032	121	2,064
1940	158	1,054	120	2,113
1941	165	1,017	130	1,991
1942	163	1,056	130	2,146
1943	170	1,063	129	2,123
1944	175	948	140	1,801
1945	183	843	145	1,600
1946	189	940	155	1,741
1947	206	953	159	1,848
1948	208	936	175	1,591
1949	219	834	182	1,520
1950	224	821	198	1,387
1951	225	849	207	1,340
1952	237	792	217	1,264
1953	245	763	225	1,279
1954	242	829	219	1,333
1955	263	712	241	1,145
1956	267	742	252	1,103
1957	306	609	268	1,052
1958	315	583	270	1,056
1959	331	546	298	918
1960	334	543	330	812
1961	331	563	348	747
1962	359	488	338	773
1963	367	460	349	740
1964	365	456	350	725
1965	374	430	387	568
1966	407	348	396	532
1967	411	344	436	464
1968	403	365	460	439
1969	429	339	475	415
1970	463	306	512	384
1971	440	344	517	359
1972	456	300	564	294
1973	455	297	590	268
1974	490	266	653	234
1975	511	245	653	233
1976	519	241	758	191
1977	552	229	686	229
1978	587	206	809	185
1979	565	231	841	185
1980	615	203	829	189
1981	622	188	777	211
1982	640	182	777	211
1983	739	136	869	175
1984	668	169	914	163
1985	712	154	942	166
1986	710	162	976	162
1987	782	139
1988	729	168	954	175
1989	813	148
1990	883	136
1991	878	144
1992	934	131
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997	995	130
Totals:		69,189		184,339

During the last 125 years, parents have used Marion as a boy's name about 27% of the time and more frequently (about 72% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Marion appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 114 times during the last 125 years.

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