girls:
559.9k births since 1880
#51 (99th percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1911
#1868 (59th percentile)
overall:
564.2k births since 1880
#110 (99th percentile)
The name Maria is the #110 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 564,204 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #51 (99.1% percentile) for all time with 559,940 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,868 (59.3% percentile) for all time with 4,264 births since 1911.
Maria has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1911 for boys).
The name Maria has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maria reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 96.1% percentile (ranked #30) with 4,830 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 5,200 births per million (ranked 94.2% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Maria ranks #80 for girls (91.6% percentile) with 1,654 births per million, which is 31.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maria reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 16.1% percentile (ranked #580) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 61 births per million (ranked 16.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maria".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Maria.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Maria", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Maria.
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Maria. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.9% confident that Maria is pronounced as muh-REE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-EE-uh, at 31.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 R IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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