Entry № 6477 · French origin

Marie Marie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-REE /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Beloved (Marie Curie, only person to win Nobels in two sciences)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "beloved (marie curie, only person to win nobels in two sciences)".

Marie is the French form of Mary — from the Hebrew Miriam (uncertain; possibly "beloved" or "bitter"). Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the Polish-French physicist and chemist who discovered radium and polonium; coined the term "radioactivity"; and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences (Physics 1903 with husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel; Chemistry 1911 alone). First woman to win a Nobel; first person and only woman to win twice; only person to win in two scientific fields. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Subject of Eve Curie's Madame Curie (1937) and Marjane Satrapi's Radioactive (2019 film).

Beloved. Only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences (Physics 1903 + Chemistry 1911).

The name in its native script.

Marie
Transliteration
Marie
Pronunciation
/ məˈriː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marie stands.

Marie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Maries before her.

Real people
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist-chemist.
1867 – 1934
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France.
1755 – 1793
In fiction
Marie
Subject of Radioactive.
2019 film

Names connected to Marie.

The number behind Marie.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marie reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.