Mary
128
Babies in 2024
-44%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 424
-12%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Mary
Mary peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (424 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 128 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Mary reached its peak in 1997, when 424 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #118 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 128 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 7,209 girls have been officially registered with the name Mary in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,851 girls were registered with the name, starting from 229 in 2014 and ending at 128 in 2024.