Mary
Usually a girl's name
- Meaning
- Origin disputed: Hebrew Miryam, read as 'bitter' or 'rebellion', or Egyptian 'beloved' Disputed
Often said to mean 'star of the sea'; that began as a later alteration of St. Jerome's 'drop of the sea'.
- Origin
- Hebrew, via Greek and Latin
- Popularity
US 2025: #125 (girls) · England and Wales 2025: #329
Popularity: US Social Security Administration 2025; Office for National Statistics 2025, England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This name's meaning doesn't link to one of the five elements, so it isn't matched to a chart here.