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Maris

#3,280 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Maris has been given to 2,903 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #3,280 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 63 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Maris, 2025

1 in 69,100

Maris over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Maris over time

In 2025, Maris went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19122025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Maris: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maris means

Maris belongs to the name family reached through Maris → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maris is used in Estonian and Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria, Mária and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Maris is pronounced [ˈmɒriʃ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,671 girls were recorded with the name Maris between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,172 in 1939.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,675 in 2020 to #3,280 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,742 in 2015 to #3,280 in 2025.

In the United States, 232 boys were recorded with the name Maris between 1915 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,763 in 1961.

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 Maris?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,280
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maris 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 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariss were born

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

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,200
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (525).

Is Maris 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
+210
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−605
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+462
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.2%
Peak was 2018 (63)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,172
1939

Spellings of Maris

Maris is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 52.8% against Maris's 0.03%.

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 Maris is used

Across 2016–2025, Maris was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 93,093 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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.

Maris around the world

Where Maris 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
    2024–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1949–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Maris

People whose public names include Maris, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maris in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maris. Linked forms have their own page here.

Marizete

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maris by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,280
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 605
Best rank ever
#1,172
1939
Peak year
2018
63 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,671
Count in 2025
48

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,763
1961
Peak year
1961
22 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
232
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maris

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

MarliMarwaMarynMarahMaryaMarniMarryMartyMarlyMartiMariyaMarelyMarinMariluMaryahMarloMaramMarlowMaritMarlinMarnaMarkieMaryanMarlie

Names with a curve like Maris

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maris, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArlynAlonaDarlynLaelMahaliaEllenaGreerDevoraJacklynnAllenaMarygraceEmelie

Sibling names for Maris

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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