Maree

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maree: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maree: Recorded every year since 1952, it reached #42 in 1968, and it was last ranked in 1974.

2registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
23years from first to last
#42highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in New South Wales, Australia · 1952–1971

View as table

New South Wales, Australia · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1952	#72
1953	#69
1954	#66
1955	#51
1956	#54
1957	#52
1958	#51
1959	#59
1960	#54
1961	#56
1962	#58
1963	#55
1964	#56
1965	#66
1966	#72
1967	#65
1968	#69
1969	#79
1970	#90
1971	#96

Not yet availableSource: HEKNO Name Intelligence.Confidence: insufficient.

See all New South Wales, Australia names · Source: NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages — Popular Baby Names

What the data shows

FallingNew South Wales, Australia · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in New South Wales, Australia in every year from 1952 to 1971.

In 1971: #75 among girls in New Zealand, #96 among girls in New South Wales, Australia.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1952–1974 · NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #72 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1955–1974
Highest recorded position: #42 among girls in New Zealand, in 1968 (recorded 1955–1974).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent1974
Most recently recorded at #88 among girls in New Zealand, in 1974.
New Zealand · Girls

Maree appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 1952, and has registered 2,933 births with the name.

Maree across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Maree's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#72 (1952)	#51 (1955)	#96 (1971)	20 of 20	2,933 (1952–1971)	187 (1958)
New Zealand · Girls	#72 (1955)	#42 (1968)	#88 (1974)	20 of 20	2,270 (1955–1974)	165 (1962)

Maree by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maree in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950sbusiest	1,243	8 of 10	155
1960s	1,489	10 of 10	149
1970s	201	2 of 10	101

Across New South Wales, Australia · Girls, the 1950s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 155 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1954 and 1955, when recorded births rose by 43, from 136 to 179.

See the names New South Wales, Australiahas recorded the most births with →

Maree appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1952 to 1974. Highest recorded position: #42 in New Zealand in 1968.

Maree's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
1971	New South Wales, Australia	female	#96	97	Insufficient	Not yet available
1970	New South Wales, Australia	female	#90	104	Insufficient	Not yet available
1969	New South Wales, Australia	female	#79	113	Insufficient	Not yet available
1968	New South Wales, Australia	female	#69	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
1967	New South Wales, Australia	female	#65	136	Insufficient	Not yet available
1966	New South Wales, Australia	female	#72	117	Insufficient	Not yet available
1965	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	129	Insufficient	Not yet available
1964	New South Wales, Australia	female	#56	164	Insufficient	Not yet available
1963	New South Wales, Australia	female	#55	177	Insufficient	Not yet available
1962	New South Wales, Australia	female	#58	164	Insufficient	Not yet available
1961	New South Wales, Australia	female	#56	181	Insufficient	Not yet available
1960	New South Wales, Australia	female	#54	182	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	female	#59	156	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	female	#51	187	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	female	#52	171	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	female	#54	164	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	female	#51	179	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	136	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	female	#69	132	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	female	#72	118	Insufficient	Not yet available
1974	New Zealand	female	#88	65	High	Verified
1973	New Zealand	female	#91	68	High	Verified
1972	New Zealand	female	#72	84	High	Verified
1971	New Zealand	female	#75	87	High	Verified
1970	New Zealand	female	#64	107	High	Verified
1969	New Zealand	female	#47	136	High	Verified
1968	New Zealand	female	#42	149	High	Verified
1967	New Zealand	female	#45	142	High	Verified
1966	New Zealand	female	#50	134	High	Verified
1965	New Zealand	female	#53	125	High	Verified
1964	New Zealand	female	#63	120	High	Verified
1963	New Zealand	female	#48	147	High	Verified
1962	New Zealand	female	#43	165	High	Verified
1961	New Zealand	female	#66	117	High	Verified
1960	New Zealand	female	#63	118	High	Verified
1959	New Zealand	female	#57	124	High	Verified
1958	New Zealand	female	#65	114	High	Verified
1957	New Zealand	female	#69	92	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	female	#71	87	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	female	#72	89	High	Verified

New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1952 and 1974, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #42, first reached in 1968.

It held a top-100 place in 23 years, 23 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 187 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1958.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1955, and 3 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Marcus · #24, 63y
Marcy · #430, 26y
Marek · #108, 73y
Maren · #21, 79y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Narelle · #37, 25y
Saga · #33, 28y
Taylah · #30, 27y
Ruairidh · #56, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Lee · #42, 68y
Vincent · #42, 66y
Brenda · #41, 71y
Colleen · #41, 64y

Maree was ranked #42 in New Zealand · Girls in 1968. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Maree and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maree without appearing here.

Maree moved ahead of

Carol Compare
In 1966 they stood at #72 and #61 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1967 that had become #65 and #95.
Jan Compare
In 1954 they stood at #66 and #65 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1955 that had become #51 and #74.
Jeanette Compare
In 1956 they stood at #54 and #53 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1957 that had become #52 and #75.
Denise Compare
In 1966 they stood at #72 and #65 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1967 that had become #65 and #84.

Moved ahead of Maree

Alison Compare
In 1964 they stood at #56 and #59 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1965 that had become #66 and #27.
Bridget Compare
In 1972 they stood at #72 and #87 in New Zealand · Girls; by 1973 that had become #91 and #62.
Kelly Compare
In 1967 they stood at #65 and #81 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1968 that had become #69 and #44.
Vanessa Compare
In 1967 they stood at #65 and #66 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1968 that had become #69 and #45.

Moved the opposite way to Maree

Amanda Compare
Between 1954 and 1971 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Maree went from #66 to #96 while Amanda went from #84 to #13.
Anna Compare
Between 1954 and 1971 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Maree went from #66 to #96 while Anna went from #92 to #55.
Angela Compare
Between 1955 and 1971 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Maree went from #51 to #96 while Angela went from #100 to #22.
Fiona Compare
Between 1956 and 1971 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Maree went from #54 to #96 while Fiona went from #87 to #15.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1952 to 1974. Highest recorded position: #42 in New Zealand in 1968. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Maree

Maree at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maree across 2 official records

Maree by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Maree appears in

Popularity data

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Maree at a glance

Maree across 2 official records

Maree by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Maree appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Maree

Maree and the names beside it

Maree moved ahead of

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