Mariia
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mariia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Phonetic rendering of the Swedish pronunciation of Maria.
- CUCuba1 in 12◐
- GTGuatemala1 in 14
- PYParaguay1 in 16
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈21M ●
- #1 ●
- 11 ●
- Sources
- 621 ●
- 1 in 16 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
138M records
Official registry-verified
Paraguay
Spellings & scripts●
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maria in BR Brazil, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 13 more, Mary in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 3 more, Мария in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria and Marie in FR France.
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●
Phonetic rendering of the Swedish pronunciation of Maria.
Sources 2
Attested across 27 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #1 | 29,055,101 | 15M rec. | — | 5.3K | Maria | 238 |
| MX Mexico | #1 | 16,588,910 | 13M rec. | — | 3.6K | Maria | 286 |
| RU Russia | #20 | 13,583,396 | 4.3M rec. | — | #4 | Мария | 226 |
| BR Brazil | #1 | 12,284,478△ | 3.3M rec. | 1 in 17 | 12M | Maria | 298 |
| VE Venezuela | #2 | 9,100,588 | 3.1M rec. | — | 9.1K | Maria | 169 |
| UA Ukraine | #6 | 8,811,619 | 8.8M rec. | — | listed | Марія | 103 |
| PE Peru | #1 | 6,900,695 | 4.2M rec. | — | 928K | Maria | 176 |
| CL Chile | #1 | 3,591,476 | 221K rec. | — | 1.2K | Maria | 215 |
| GB United Kingdom | #3 | 2,995,935 | 2.9M rec. | — | 1.6K | Mary | 285 |
| PH Philippines | #1 | 2,614,113 | 2.4M rec. | — | 27K | Mary | 205 |
| GT Guatemala | #2 | 2,530,600 | 295K rec. | — | 3.1K | María | 131 |
| CO Colombia | #1 | 2,353,970 | 834K rec. | — | 267 | Maria | 269 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian1.8M84%
- Polish259K12%
- Spanish16K1%
- Finnish16K1%
- Russian13K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 1,829,044 | 84% |
| Polish | 258,956 | 12% |
| Spanish | 16,325 | 1% |
| Finnish | 16,178 | 1% |
| Russian | 12,672 | 1% |
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●
Mariia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Russianization of Mary.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, A transliteration of the Russian female given name Мари́я (Maríja), equivalent to Mary.
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 |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 17 |
| 2017 | 27 |
| 2018 | 37 |
| 2019 | 35 |
| 2020 | 50 |
| 2021 | 55 |
| 2022 | 57 |
| 2023 | 198 |
| 2024 | 214 |
| 2025 | 253 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 16 years between 2010–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russiab. 1786RUnot in their usual nameRussian Grand Duchess
- Maria Feodorovnab. 1847DKnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of Russia (1847–1928)
- Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russiab. 1853RUnot in their usual nameDuchess consort of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1853–1920); sixth child and second daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)
- Marie Bashkirtseffb. 1860FRnot in their usual nameUkrainian-French artist
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russiab. 1899RUnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Russia (1899–1918); third daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- Maria Prymachenkob. 1908UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian folk art painter (1909–1997)
- Maria Zakharovab. 1975RUnot in their usual nameRussian foreign ministry spokesperson since 2015
- Maria Vorontsovab. 1985RUnot in their usual namedaughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
- Maria Sharapovab. 1987RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player
- Maria Kirilenkob. 1987RUnot in their usual nameRussian female tennis player
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 49 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 285 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mariia?
- We estimate roughly 21 million people bear Mariia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mariia have the most bearers?
- Mariia is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled maria.
- How common is Mariia compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Mariia is the most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Mariia a male or female name?
- Mariia 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 Mariia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Phonetic rendering of the Swedish pronunciation of Maria.
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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, “Mariia” — the most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.