Mary


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
4393 famous people named Mary found on Wikipedia.
4125421 female, 15159 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 126-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 1st in year 1961
Used in: Biblical, English

Meanings

For other uses, see Mary.
Mary is a feminine given name, the English form of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριάμ (Mariam) and Μαρία (Maria), found in the New Testament. Both variants reflect Syro-Aramaic Maryam, itself a variant of the Hebrew name מִרְיָם or Miryam.

Fem. proper name, Old English Maria, Marie, name of the mother of Jesus, from Latin Maria, from Greek Mariam, Maria, from Aramaic Maryam, from Hebrew Miryam, sister of Moses (Exodus xv), of unknown origin, said to mean literally "rebellion." Nursery rhyme "Mary had a Little Lamb" written early 1830 by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston; published Sept. 1830 in "Juvenile Miscellany," a popular magazine for children. Mary Jane is 1921 as the proprietary name of a kind of low-heeled shoe worn chiefly by young girls, 1928 as slang for marijuana.

Wished-for child, rebellion, bitter.

Famous People: 4393 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Mary I of England 1516 Queen of England and Ireland
2 Mary Tyler Moore 1936 American actress, television producer
3 Mary Elizabeth Winstead 1984 American actress
4 Mary of Teck 1867 Queen consort of the United Kingdom Empress of India
5 Mary Steenburgen 1953 American actress
6 Mary Magdalene Jesus' close friend
7 Mary J. Blige 1971 Singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, actress
8 Mary Berry 1935 British food writer and television presenter
9 Mary Shelley 1797 English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
10 Mary Pickford 1892 Canadian-American motion picture actress
11 Mary Elizabeth Ellis 1979 American actress
12 Mary Kom 1983 Indian boxer
13 Mary Kay Letourneau 1962 Schoolteacher convicted of the statutory rape of a 13-year old boy
14 Mary Ann Cotton 1832 British murderer
15 Mary Todd Lincoln 1818 Wife of Abraham Lincoln and First Lady of the United States
16 Mary Jackson 1921 Mathematician and aerospace engineer
17 Mary Boleyn 1499 Sister of English queen Anne Boleyn
18 Mary Bell 1957 English child killer
19 Mary Tudor, Queen of France 1496 Queen of France
20 Mary McDonnell 1952 American actress
21 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 1958 American actress and singer
22 Mary Jane Watson Character in the Spider Man series
23 Mary II of England 1662 Joint Sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland
24 Mary Stuart Masterson 1966 American actress, director
25 Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 British writer and philosopher
26 Mary Mapes 1956 American television producer and journalist
27 Mary of Lorraine 1515 Scottish Queen
28 Mary McCormack 1969 American actress
29 Mary Read 1690 Pirate
30 Mary Brunner 1943 American academic and convicted criminal
31 Mary Fields 1832 American mail carrier
32 Mary Anne MacLeod 1912
33 Mary Lynn Rajskub 1971 American actress
34 Mary Anning 1799 British fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist
35 Mary Lou Retton 1968 American gymnast
36 Mary Seacole 1805 Jamaican writer
37 Mary Jane Kelly 1863 Whitechapel murder victim
38 Mary Carey 1980 American pornographic actress
39 Mary Kay Bergman 1961 Voice actress
40 Mary Jo Deschanel 1945 American actress
41 Mary Astor 1906 Actress, author
42 Mary Jo Kopechne 1940 Teacher, secretary, and campaign specialist
43 Mary Toft 1703 English medical hoaxer
44 Mary Katharine Ham 1980 American journalist
45 Mary Cassatt 1844 American painter and printmaker
46 Mary Surratt 1823 Lincoln assassination conspirator
47 Mary in Islam Mother of Jesus
48 Mary Wickes 1910 Actress
49 Mary Pinchot Meyer 1920 American socialite and painter
50 Mary Matalin 1953 American political consultant
51 Mary Ingalls 1865 American woman
52 Mary Travers 1936 American singer-songwriter
53 Mary Kay Place 1947 American actress
54 Mary Crosby 1959 Actress
55 Mary Chapin Carpenter 1958 American musician
56 Mary Hopkin 1950 British singer
57 Mary Badham 1952 American actress
58 Mary Barra 1961 Chief Executive Officer of General Motors
59 Mary McLeod Bethune 1875 American educator and civil rights leader
60 Mary Millington 1945 English adult film actress
61 Mary Jo Buttafuoco 1955 Housewife, author
62 Mary Ann Mobley 1937 American actress
63 Mary Wilson 1944 American vocalist and founding member of The Supremes
64 Mary McCartney 1969 Photographer
65 Mary Karr 1955 American writer
66 Mary Martin 1913 Actress
67 Mary Beard 1955 English classicist
68 Mary Fallin 1954 American politician
69 Mary Ellen Wilson 1864 American child abuse victim
70 Mary Turner 1899 American murder victim
71 Mary Ann Nichols 1845 Whitechapel murder victim
72 Mary Harris Jones 1837 Irish-born American labor and community organizer
73 Mary Millar 1936 Actress, singer
74 Mary Ellen Trainor 1952 American actress
75 Mary Baker Eddy 1821 Religious leader
76 Mary Welsh Hemingway 1908 American journalist
77 Typhoid Mary Character in Marvel comics
78 Mary Frann 1943 Actress
79 Mary Carillo 1957 American sportscaster and former professional tennis player
80 Mary Ure 1933 Scottish stage and film actress
81 Mary Soames 1922 Daughter of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine
82 Mary Higgins Clark 1929 Novelist, writer
83 Mary Pierce 1975 French tennis player
84 Mary Hart 1950 American journalist
85 Mary Bono Mack 1961 American politician
86 Mary Oliver 1935 American writer
87 Mary Winkler 1973 Minister's wife convicted of manslaughter in the killing of her husband
88 Mary Robinson 1944 Irish politician; President of Ireland, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
89 Mary Lambert 1989 American singer-songwriter and poet
90 Mary Elizabeth McDonough 1961 Actress
91 Mary Elizabeth McGlynn 1966 American voice actress and director
92 Mary MacKillop 1842 Australian foundress and saint
93 Mary Kay Ash 1918 Entrepreneur
94 Mary Cheney 1969 Daughter of Dick Cheney
95 Mary Lincoln Beckwith 1898 Descendent of Abraham Lincoln
96 Mary Wells 1943 American pop/soul singer
97 Mary Maxwell Gates 1929 American businesswoman
98 Mary Edwards Walker 1832 American feminist and doctor, 1832–1919
99 Mary Whitehouse 1910 British activist
100 Mary Nighy 1984 British actress
101 Mary Quant 1934 British fashion designer
102 Mary Beth Hurt 1946 American stage and film actress
103 Mary Decker 1958 Athletics competitor, middle distance runner, long distance runner
104 Mary Joe Fernández 1971 American tennis player
105 Mary Corleone
106 Mary Costa 1930 Singer
107 Mary of Burgundy 1457 Duchess of Burgundy and wife of Emperor Maximilian I.
108 Mary McAleese 1951 8th President of Ireland
109 Mary Beth Peil 1940 Singer and actress
110 Mary Alice 1941 American actress
111 Mary Marvel Fictional human
112 Mary Jo Catlett 1938 Actress
113 Mary Livingstone 1905 American actress
114 Mary Landrieu 1955 United States Senator from Louisiana
115 Mary Sue Hubbard 1931 Third wife of L. Ron Hubbard
116 Mary Nightingale 1963 English newsreader and television presenter
117 Mary Eastey 1634 Woman executed in the Salem witch trials
118 Mary Ann Vecchio 1955 American activist
119 Mary Page Keller 1961 Actress
120 Mary Woronov 1943 Actress, writer
121 Mary Jo Eustace 1957 Actress
122 Mary Sarah 1995 Actress/singer
123 Mary Seymour 1548 Daughter of Catherine Parr
124 Mary Ainsworth 1913 American-Canadian psychologist
125 Mary Scheer 1963 American comedian
126 Mary Pat Christie 1963 Wife of Chris Christie
127 Mary Poppins Fictional nanny, lead character in the Mary Poppins fantasy book series and its adaptations
128 Jewel Mary 1990 Indian television anchor
129 Mary of Modena 1658 English royal consort
130 Mary of Bethany Saint
131 Mary Anna Custis Lee 1808 Wife of Robert E. Lee
132 Mary Roach 1959 American science writer
133 Mary Ball Washington 1708 Mother of George Washington
134 Mary Sweeney 1953 American film editor, film producer, screenwriter and film director
135 Mary Grace Canfield 1924 Actress
136 Mary Jane Veloso 1985 Filipino woman
137 Mary Birdsong 1968 American actress
138 Mary Slessor 1848 Scottish Presbyterian missionary
139 Mary McCarthy 1912 American writer
140 Mary Beth Evans 1961 American actress
141 Mary Dyer 1611 Quaker martyr
142 Mary Kate Schellhardt 1978 American actress
143 Mary Harron 1953 Canadian film director
144 Mary Portas 1960 English retail consultant
145 Mary Jefferson Eppes 1778 Thomas Jefferson's younger child
146 Mary Rowlandson 1635 American woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War
147 Mary Alice Young 1965 Fictional character
148 Mary Black 1955 Irish singer
149 Mary Mouser 1996 Actress
150 Mary Leakey 1913 British paleoanthropologist
151 Unni Mary 1962 Indian actress
152 Mary Philips 1901 American stage actor
153 Mary Kaye Huntsman 1961 Wife of Jon Huntsman, First Lady of Utah
154 Mary Jo White 1947 31st and current Chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
155 Mary Parker Follett 1868 American academic
156 Mary Peters 1939 British pentathlete
157 Mary Tamm 1950 British actress
158 Mary Ford 1924 American musician
159 Mary Jemison 1743 American frontierswoman who was adopted in her teens by the Seneca
160 Mary Margaret Blanchard Fictional character on Once Upon a Time
161 Mary Ellen Mark 1940 American photographer
162 Mary Louise Wilson 1931 American actress
163 Mary Pope Osborne 1949 American children's writer
164 Mary Carlisle 1912 American actress
165 Mary of York 1467 English princess
166 Mary Walcott 1675 Witness at the Salem Witch Trials
167 Mary Hayley Bell 1911 English actress, writer and dramatist
168 Mary Somerville 1780 Science writer and polymath
169 Mary Lou Williams 1910 American pianist
170 Mary Ann Summers
171 Mary Drake
172 Mary Gross 1953 American actress
173 Mary Bankes 1598 English Royalist
174 Mary Margaret O'Hara Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
175 Mary Anne Hobbs 1964 British DJ
176 Mary Bryant 1765 Cornish convict sent to Australia
177 Mary Stewart 1916 English novelist
178 Mary Jepkosgei Keitany 1982 Kenyan long-distance runner
179 Mary Boykin Chesnut 1823 American writer
180 Mary Anderson 1920 American actress born in 1920
181 Mary Harrison McKee 1858 Daughter of President Benjamin Harrison
182 Mary Babnik Brown 1907 Laborer, dancer
183 Mary Louise Weller 1946 American actress
184 Mary Rogers 1820 American murder victim
185 Mary Reeser 1884 Suspected victim of Spontaneous Human Combustion
186 Mary Jean Eisenhower 1955 American humanitarian
187 Mary Meeker 1959 American venture capitalist and securities analyst
188 Mary Whiton Calkins 1863 American psychologist & scholar
189 Mary Daly 1928 American radical feminist philosopher and theologian
190 Mary Cadorette 1957 American actress
191 Mary Jane Croft 1916 Actress
192 Mary Archer 1944 British physical chemist and university academic
193 Mary Murphy 1931 American actress
194 Mary Lou McDonald 1969 Irish politician
195 Mary Komasa 1985
196 Mary Blair 1911 American animator and illustrator
197 Mary Renault 1905 English novelist
198 Mary de Bohun 1369 Wife of King Henry IV of England
199 Mary Reibey 1777 Australian businesswoman
200 Mary Douglas 1921 British anthropologist