Maral

#8,162 in 2025Girls' name

Deer

Maral has been given to 362 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #8,162 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Maral, 2025

1 in 255,000

Maral over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maral: meaning, origin, and history

Deer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maral means

Maral means “deer”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 362 girls were recorded with the name Maral between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1990; its best national rank was #6,127 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,745 in 2020 to #8,162 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,516 in 2015 to #8,162 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Maral?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 255,000; 13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 124,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #8,162; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 176,762 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maral sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maral. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maral was born before 1998 — so the typical Maral is around 27 today.

Median birth year: 1998; About 27 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 49.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 362; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Maral rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +6,453; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +3,583; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +3,354; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.44×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 92.9%; Peak was 1990 (14)
Years since peak: 35; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,127; 1988

Spellings of Maral

Maral is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 45.1% against Maral's <0.01%.

Mary45.1%4,141,481
Sarah12.0%1,098,498
Carol8.9%816,928
Maria6.2%566,111
Marie5.9%540,077
Sara4.7%436,193
Tara1.9%175,812
Mabel1.5%142,284

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maral is used

Across 1910–2025, Maral was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 195,278 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maral has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maral around the world

Where Maral ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2008–2024
#5,892
in 2024
France
1982–2019
#5,463
in 2019
Canada
1992–2016
#3,204
in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maral by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #8,162
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 3,583
Best rank ever: #6,127; 1988
Peak year: 1990; 14 that year
First recorded: 1968
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 362
Count in 2025: 13

Names similar to Maral

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maral

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

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For a brother

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