Maryland
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maryland has been given to 1,299 babies in the U.S. since 1901. 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 1927, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% girls, 24% boys all-time.
Babies named Maryland, 2020
1 in 668,000
Maryland over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Maryland over time
In 2020, Maryland went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Maryland?
Maryland had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 323,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maryland sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maryland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marylands were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maryland was born before 1941 — so the typical Maryland is around 84 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 20.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 317
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (201).
Is Maryland 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 1927 (33)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 53.2% average annual change
Spellings of Maryland
Maryland is not the most common spelling — Maryann is, with 65.1% against Maryland's 1.0%.
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 Maryland is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Maryland was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 982,341 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Maryland has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Maryland is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Maryland was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 126,669 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Maryland has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Maryland by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Maryland
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maryland
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.