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Maru

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maru has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 2015. 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 2024, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% boys, 30% girls all-time.

Babies named Maru, 2024

1 in 418,000

Maru over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Maru over time

In 2024, Maru went to 43% girls and 57% boys.

20152024

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.

Maru: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maru means

Maru is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maru is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Maru between 2015 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #9,545 in 2024.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Maru between 2023 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #14,633 in 2024.

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 Maru?

Maru had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maru sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maru was born before 2019 — so the typical Maru is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
69.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
26
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2010s — 69.2% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Maru 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2024 (8)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,545
2024

Spellings of Maru

Maru is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 30.8% against Maru'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.

Where Maru is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Maru was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Maru has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maru around the world

Where Maru 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.

  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maru by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,545
2024
Peak year
2024
8 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,633
2024
Peak year
2024
6 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maru

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

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Sibling names for Maru

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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