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Marya

#7,021 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Mariya

Marya has been given to 2,211 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #7,021 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Marya, 2025

1 in 207,000

Marya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mariya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marya means

Marya is a form of Mariya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mariya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,211 girls were recorded with the name Marya between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,663 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,252 in 2020 to #7,021 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,889 in 2015 to #7,021 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.

How common is Marya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,021
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marya 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maryas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marya was born before 1978 — so the typical Marya is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
17.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,981
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 17.5% of all recorded uses (388).

Is Marya 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
−188
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,231
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−132
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.7%
Peak was 1971 (49)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,663
1965

Spellings of Marya

Marya is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 45.2% against Marya's 0.02%.

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 Marya is used

Across 1910–2025, Marya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 265,760 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 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. Marya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marya around the world

Where Marya 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
    1996–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    1926–2025
    #862
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1953–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Marya

People whose public names include Marya, 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.

Marya in other languages

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

MareaMariaMariyaMaryia

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

Marya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,021
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,231
Best rank ever
#1,663
1965
Peak year
1971
49 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,211
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Marya

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

MarahMarwaMarryMarisMarliMarynMarlyMarniMartyMartiMaryahMariluMaramMarlowMariyaMarelyMarinMaritMarlinMarkieMaryanMarloMarikoMarea

Names with a curve like Marya

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

DelanaJulieannRosauraTomiMichelAnnamariaJinaDainaSariJulienneDelenaJuliane

Sibling names for Marya

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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