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Mariia

Girls' name

Transliteration of Мари́я or Марі́я

Mariia has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2023. 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 2023, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Mariia, 2023

1 in 663,000

Mariia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariia: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Мари́я or Марі́я

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mariia means

Mariia is a transliteration of Мари́я or Марі́я.

Origin, language, and formation

Mariia is used in English and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Мари́я and Марі́я.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Mariia is pronounced /ˈmɑriː.ɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Mariia between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #16,733 in 2023.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mariia?

Mariia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariia 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariia was born before 2023 — so the typical Mariia is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Mariia 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
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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 2023 (5)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#16,733
2023

Spellings of Mariia

Mariia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 16.8% against Mariia's <0.01%.

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.

Mariia around the world

Where Mariia 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
    2022–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #4,467
    in 2024
  • Norway
    2025–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mariia 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
#16,733
2023
Peak year
2023
5 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mariia

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

MariamiMarsanaMarvilMarvalMarteeMarsueMarishMariniMarikeMarkeyMarseaMarkkiMarykaMarhiaMaryhaMaremeMariaeMaraamMaraliMarlyeMargilMartezMarrisMarryn

Sibling names for Mariia

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

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