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Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Marie: French variation of Mary, Hebrew Meaning of Marie: "bitter" Marie's Popularity in 2012: #576
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Marie sounds more dated than either Mary or Maria, though it once rivaled both. Even its days as a widely-used middle name have passed. The freshest way to use Marie today may be as the first part of a traditional French double name: Marie-Christine, Marie-Claude, and so on.

Famous People Named Marie

Marie Curie, scientist
Marie Osmond, singer
Marie Antoinette, royal personage
Princess Marie of Denmark

Pop Culture References for the Name Marie

Marie Callender's, restaurant and frozen food
Marie Stahlbaum is the heroine of "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," by E.T.A. Hoffmann (but she is known as Clara in the ballet, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
Marie, the little white kitten in Disney's "The Aristocats"

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