Marni
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 21 babies a year in England and Wales.
Marni by the numbers
In 2025, 21 babies in England and Wales were named Marni. In the US, 13 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 253 babies in 1969, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Marni
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Marni. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Marnierejoice; of the sea467 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mariof the sea; a form of Mary or Maria32 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marciof mars; a form of Marcus or Marcia25 in the US (2017)
- Martiform of Martin or Martha; of Mars the god of war13 in the US (2017)
- Mariiof mary; modern respelling variant5 in the US (2017)
- Marli103 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Marni
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