Marybeth
About Marybeth
Marybeth, something written like this as one word and sometimes as Mary Beth, is one of those compound versions of Mary popular in the midcentury US. Parents were trying to move away from plain old Mary, long the #1 girls' name, but not too far away. Marybeth is one of the most classic combinations, pairing Mary with the also-long-popular Elizabeth. About 400 baby girls were named Marybeth every year at its peak in the mid-1960s; today, it's fewer than 20.
The meaning of Mary is uncertain, but theories include "drop of the sea" (from Hebrew roots mar "drop" and yam "sea"); "bitter" (from Hebrew marah "bitterness"); and "beloved" (from the Egyptian root mr).
Pronounced MAIR-ee-beth.
As of October 2026, Marybeth ranked #6045 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #442 in 1962.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
Similar names
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Marybeth on lists
Famous Marybeths
- Mary Beth Hurt
American actress
- Mary Beth Peil
American actress and singer
- Mary Elizabeth "Mary Beth" Hughes
American actress
- Mary Elizabeth "Mary Beth" McDonough
American actress
- Mary Beth Evans
American actress
- Mary Beth Marley
American pair skater
- Marybeth Peters
11th US Register of Copyrights
- Mary Beth Edelson
American feminist artist
- Mary Beth Buchanan
former US Attorney
- Mary Beth Long
former US Assistant Secretary of Defense
- Mary Elizabeth "Mary Beth" Rubens
American actress
- Mary Beth Decker
American model
- Mary Beth Leonard
US Ambassador to Nigeria
- Mary Beth Patterson
birth name of Beth Ditto, American singer of band Gossip
- Mary Beth Cahill
American political campaign manager
Marybeth in pop culture
- Marybeth Dunston
character in the "Hatchet" movies
- Mary Beth Lacey
main character on TV's "Cagney and Lacey"