Maral
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maral is a given name, most frequently recorded in Turkmenistan, where it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Turkmen, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: deer.
- TMTurkmenistan1 in 203◐
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 3.6K
- KZKazakhstan1 in 5.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.3K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 170 ●
- 1 in 5.2K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
95K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Марал in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
deer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM Turkmenistan | #7 | 27,714 | 27K rec. | — | — | Maral | 17 |
| RU Russia | — | 8,640 | 3.7K rec. | — | #1,593 | Марал | 102 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 5,946 | 28K rec. | — | — | Maral | 41 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #384 | 3,673 | 21K rec. | 1 in 5.2K | 3.7K | Марал | 41 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #899 | 3,642 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Марал | 13 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #500 | 1,218 | 453 rec. | — | 43 | Maral | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,049 | 7.4K rec. | 1 in 317K | 1K | Maral | 170 |
| IR Iran | — | 999 | 836 rec. | — | — | Maral | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | 528 | 528 rec. | — | 1 | Maral | 49 |
| SY Syria | — | 462 | 516 rec. | — | — | Maral | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 458 | 567 rec. | — | 1 | Maral | 57 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 394 | 434 rec. | — | — | Марал | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English11K20%
- Turkmen9.5K17%
- Turkish5.6K10%
- Arabic4.4K8%
- Russian3.9K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 11,262 | 20% |
| Turkmen | 9,523 | 17% |
| Turkish | 5,646 | 10% |
| Arabic | 4,437 | 8% |
| Russian | 3,870 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Maral is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkmen, Maral ýaly owadan gyz bolsun.
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
In xgn-pro, mountain deer
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Cebuano, the Visayan leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis javanensis, syn. Prionailurus javanensis rabori) is a Sunda leopard cat subspecies
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, doe, female deer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yog, bad; evil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 13 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 14 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 13 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maral Rahmanzadeb. 1916AZAzerbaijani painter (1916–2008)
- Maral Yazarloob. 1981IRIranian motor-biking world record holder and fashion designer
- Maral Baniadamb. 1981IRIranian actress
- Maral Noshad Sharifib. 1989NLjournalist from the Netherlands
- Maral Bazarganib. 1990IRsprinter
- Maral Büyüksaraçb. 1996TRTurkish actor (born 1996)
- Maral Artinb. 2000DEGerman association football player
- Maral torkamanb. 2002IRIranian Futsal Player
- Maral DadvarDEscientist
- Maral MohammadianIRIranian-Canadian film producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 55 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 231 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maral?
- We estimate roughly 5.3 thousand people bear Maral (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maral have the most bearers?
- Maral is most frequently recorded in Turkmenistan, where it is most often spelled maral.
- How common is Maral compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Maral is the 7th most common given name of 51,859 given names recorded there.
- Is Maral a male or female name?
- Maral is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Maral mean?
- Recorded meaning: deer
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maral” — the 7th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.