girl's name
Marie-France
ma-REE FRAHNSS
- Origin French
- Gender Girl
- Letters 12
- Births on record 54,486
Marie-France peaked in 1948, three years after the Liberation, and its second half is the country itself — one of very few given names anywhere that takes a nation as an element. Every recorded birth is French.
- Marie-France is a name of French origin.
- Peaked in France in 1948, when 2,850 babies were given the name.
- Its usage has held steady over the past decade in France.
- First appears in birth records in 1913.
Marie-France over time
Births per decade in France, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2022, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1910s | 40 |
| 1920s | 85 |
| 1930s | 425 |
| 1940s | 16,045 |
| 1950s | 22,070 |
| 1960s | 11,580 |
| 1970s | 2,845 |
| 1980s | 595 |
| 1990s | 275 |
| 2000s | 100 |
| 2010s | 35 |
| 2020s (to 2022) | 10 |
What Marie-France means
Marie-France joins Marie to the name of France. Marie's own meaning has never been settled, so only the second half of the compound can be translated with any confidence.
Where Marie-France comes from
Marie-France compounds Marie with France, from the Latin Francia, the land of the Franks — a Germanic people whose own name may derive from a throwing spear, the francisca. Marie descends from the Hebrew Miriam, for which bitter, beloved and rebellious have all been proposed and none established. Naming a child for the country is rare in any language, and the hyphenated pattern belongs to the mid twentieth century alongside Marie-Claude and Jean-Pierre.
Marie-France in use
Marie-France peaked in France in 1948, when 2,850 babies were registered — three years after the Liberation — and our data marks it stable rather than falling. It charts in none of the six markets we track in the most recent year, despite 54,105 lifetime births. Every one of those births is French, which the second half of the name would rather lead you to expect.
How popular is Marie-France?
In 2022, Marie-France was given to 5 babies in France. It was given to fewer than five babies in the most recent year of published US data.
Where Marie-France is used
French counts are rounded to the nearest five and nothing below five is published, so these figures show the shape of the name's use rather than an exact tally. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Marie-France
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Marie-France also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Marie-France over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
Marie-France in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
- Arabic
- France
- Other forms
- Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
- Marie-Claude Marie-Claire
Sibling names for Marie-France
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Marie-France — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Marie-France
What does Marie-France mean?
Marie joined to the country's name. Marie's own meaning is unsettled.
Where does France get its name?
From the Franks, whose own name may come from the francisca, a throwing spear.
When did it peak?
1948 in France, three years after the Liberation.
Is it used outside France?
No. Every birth in our records is French.
Is Marie-France a girl's or a boy's name?
Marie-France is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.