Maray

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maray has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Maray, 2008

1 in 786,000

Maray 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maray: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maray means

Maray is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maray is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Maray between 1995 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1995; its best national rank was #12,730 in 1995.

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.

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How common is Maray?

Maray had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008: 1 in 786,000; 5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only: 1 in 378,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 544,916 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maray 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maray. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maray was born before 1995 — so the typical Maray is around 30 today.

Median birth year: 1995; About 30 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Maray 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1995 (6)
Years since peak: 30; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #12,730; 1995

Spellings of Maray

Maray is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 48.5% against Maray's <0.01%.

Mary48.5%4,141,481
Sarah12.9%1,098,498
Maria6.6%566,111
Marie6.3%540,077
Sara5.1%436,193
Tara2.1%175,812
Marian1.7%141,944
Maya1.4%123,587

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.

Maray by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #12,730; 1995
Peak year: 1995; 6 that year
First recorded: 1995
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Maray

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

Marsh Marii Marfa Marey Mariamu Marvi Marelys Marba Marim Marieth Maran Marsana Maryke Marnia Maraih Mariby Maraja Maru Marel Marke Marje Marek Maraia Marthy

Sibling names for Maray

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

Salena Corrina Alexandrea Iman Breonna Fabiola Berenice Alex

For a brother

Hernan Rashawn Travon Austen Deonte Denton Austyn Claudio

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