girls:
514 births since 1962
#5202 (9th percentile)
overall:
514 births since 1962
#7225 (7th percentile)
The name Marija is the #7,225 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 514 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 6.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,202 (9.0% percentile) for all time with 514 births since 1962.
Marija first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (first recorded for girls in 1962). Birth data for Marija is available in 55 out of the 61 years between 1962 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Marija reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #788) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marija".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Marija. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.6% confident that Marija is pronounced as mah-REE-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-REE-juh, at 27.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA0 R IY1 JH 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.
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