Mary-Jane

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Mary-Jane: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #365 in 2014, and it stood at #2,927 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#365highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1287
1998	#2165
1999	#2444
2000	#3247
2001	#3998
2002	#2540
2003	#2191
2004	#1459
2005	#2247
2006	#1660
2007	#2233
2008	#2022
2009	#1668
2010	#2104
2011	#2636
2012	#1893
2013	#1774
2014	#1882
2015	#1961
2016	#1834
2017	#2341
2018	#3178
2019	#2869
2020	#3899
2021	#2341
2022	#3533
2023	#2927

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2023.

In 2020: #834 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3899 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1755 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #2927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Mary-Jane appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 286 births with the name.

Mary-Jane 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.

Mary-Jane'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#1287 (1997)	#2927 (2023)	28 of 28	286 (1996–2023)	16 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#868 (2016)	#834 (2020)	#834 (2020)	3 of 5	9 (2016–2020)	3 (2016)

Mary-Jane by decade in England and Wales · 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 Mary-Jane in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	36	4 of 10	9
2000s	97	10 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	123	10 of 10	12
2020s	30	4 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mary-Jane 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #365 in Northern Ireland in 2014.

Mary-Jane'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
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2022	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2023, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #365, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 20 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.

Mary-Anne · #1697, 24y
Mary-Ellen · #873, 13y
Mary-Jayne · #2191, 12y
Mary-Kate · #238, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Rodrigo · #365, 27y
Mayah · #366, 24y
Brianne · #363, 24y
Coleen · #363, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amy-Rose · #365, 23y
Chardonnay · #365, 22y
Clay · #365, 30y
Kaila · #365, 29y

Mary-Jane was ranked #365 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2014. 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.

Mary-Jane 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 Mary-Jane without appearing here.

Mary-Jane moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #5581.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.
Donna Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #4634.
Lorraine Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #4634.

Moved ahead of Mary-Jane

Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #1939.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3178 and #1436.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3178 and #1711.
Ada Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1459 and #1617 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2247 and #951.

Moved the opposite way to Mary-Jane

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mary-Jane went from #1755 to #2927 while Ada went from #2683 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mary-Jane went from #1755 to #2927 while Alma went from #2096 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mary-Jane went from #1755 to #2927 while Alyssa went from #783 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mary-Jane went from #1755 to #2927 while Amalie went from #2096 to #865.

Moved the same way as Mary-Jane

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mary-Jane went from #1755 to #2927 and Abigail from #21 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mary-Jane went from #1755 to #2927 and Aimee from #70 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mary-Jane went from #1755 to #2927 and Aisling from #440 to #2504.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mary-Jane went from #1755 to #2927 and Alex from #161 to #2504.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #365 in Northern Ireland in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Mary-Jane

Mary-Jane at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mary-Jane across 2 official records

Mary-Jane by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Mary-Jane at a glance

Mary-Jane across 2 official records

Mary-Jane by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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