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How popular is the name Mario?
Births per year, rank history and how many Marios are alive today.
Mario (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 856th in 2025 with 37 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2019, when 98 babies were given the name, the 424th most popular that year. It has declined since 2019; the 2025 figure is roughly 38% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Mario you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Marios born in England and Wales are between 7 and 20, and there are at least 1,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Mario - on average, only one in every 179 such rooms contains a Mario.
How many babies are named Mario each year?
Where does Mario rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Mario most popular?
Mario peaked in 2019, when 98 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Mario?
At least 1,700 people named Mario born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Mario?
Most living Marios are between 7 and 20; the most common age is about 8.
Is Mario becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2019 peak.