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Maria

Girls' name · Late 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~472,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#87 among girls
Births in 2025
2,893 570,389 since 1880
Typical age
45 years, median

Maria popularity over time

Maria rank by birth year, 1880–2025Maria ranked #131 in 1880 and #87 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #30, in 1975.#100#87best #30 in 197518901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Maria in 1964 than in any other year — 10,197 of them. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. It has held a top-100 place in 75 separate years.

In 2025 it ranked #87 with 2,893 births.

Babies named Maria per yearPeaks at 10,197 births in 1964.10,197 in 1964018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Maria?

An estimated 472,700 living Americans are called Maria. That is out of 570,389 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Maria?

The typical living Maria is 45 years old. More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Maria a late 20th-century perennial name.

Your Maria

Ages of living people named MariaHalf of living Marias are older than 45 and half younger.median 45020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Maria is most common

Maria is 1.8× as common in Arizona as it is nationally. District of Columbia, Nebraska and Delaware follow.

Where Maria is used more than average5 states use the name Maria more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: 1.7× the national rateNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: 1.6× the national rateDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: 1.8× the national rateAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 1.8× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: 1.6× the national rateTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Maria is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Arizona 910 1.8×
District of Columbia 92 1.8×
Nebraska 227 1.7×
Delaware 73 1.6×
Texas 4,255 1.6×

Maria in England and Wales

ONS recorded 522 births named Maria in 2025, ranking it #88. That is 30% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Maria comes from

Doublet of Mary, Marie, Miriam.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Maria

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Maria Montessori Italian physician and educator 1870–1952 107
Maria Goeppert Mayer German-born American theoretical physicist 1906–1972 102
Maria Callas American-Greek operatic soprano 1923–1977 92
Maria Ressa Filipino journalist 1963 76
Maria Sibylla Merian German-Dutch entomologist, botanist, naturalist, scientific illustrator, graphic artist, painter, and lepidopterologist 1647–1717 71
Maria Konopnicka Polish writer and activist 1842–1910 60
Maria I of Portugal Portuguese monarch from 1777 to 1816 1734–1816 56
Maria Mitchell American astronomer 1818–1889 53
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Maria

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Maria was in 2025.

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