Maria

What Maria means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Maria yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 10,148 babies; 2,887 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maria?

US: Rising: up from #109 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #73 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1966, when 9,132 girls got the name (#44 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 557 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 485 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 511 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (5.94 per 1,000 girls), ND (3.7 per 1,000 girls), NM (3.64 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Maria is #87 in the US and #88 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Maria were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mariah693 US · 28 E&W
• Marie474 US · 47 E&W
• Moriah221 US · 20 E&W
• Meara53 US
• Miari13 US
• Miara8 US
• Marea7 US
• Mireia6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Maria

Girls

• Rachel#250“ewe”^*
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Jordan#584Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #262 in 2015, #584 in 2025
• Rebecca#349“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Jamie#857Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1977, with 12,895 babies; 316 in 2025

For a brother

• Jared#396Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #396 vs #1,705 in 2025
• Ruben#480Editor’s note Down from #374 in 2015 to #480 in 2025 in the US
• John#23possibly “God is gracious”^*
• Joseph#29“(God) shall add”^*
• Thomas#34“twin”^*
• Jon#951Variant of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Maria’s. Rank is US 2025.