Mariya

given name · Bulgarian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mariya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: cleaning itself; a cat.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 12 countries

#1 ●

of 16M given names

11 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
621 ●

138M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 16 ◐

Paraguay

Spellings & scripts●

MariaLatin · Portuguese●99M records
МарияCyrillic · Russian●14M records
ΜαριαGreek · Greek●1.3M records
מריםHebrew · Hebrew●617K records
ᲛარიამGeorgian · Georgian●167K records
มาเรียมThai · Thai●10K records
ՄարիաArmenian · Armenian●1.6K records
마리아Hangul · Korean●576 records
ማርታEthiopic · Amharic●386 records
ମାରିଆOdia · Odia●1 records
ਮਾਰੀਆGurmukhi · Punjabi●0 records

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●

cleaning itself; a cat.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mariya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#129,055,10115M rec.—5.3KMaria238
MX Mexico#116,588,91013M rec.—3.6KMaria286
RU Russia#2013,583,3964.3M rec.—#4Мария226
BR Brazil#112,284,478△3.3M rec.1 in 1712MMaria298
VE Venezuela#29,100,5883.1M rec.—9.1KMaria169
UA Ukraine#68,811,6198.8M rec.—listedМарія103
PE Peru#16,900,6954.2M rec.—928KMaria176
CL Chile#13,591,476221K rec.—1.2KMaria215
GB United Kingdom#32,995,9352.9M rec.—1.6KMary285
PH Philippines#12,614,1132.4M rec.—27KMary205
GT Guatemala#22,530,600295K rec.—3.1KMaría131
CO Colombia#12,353,970834K rec.—267Maria269

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bulgarian670K74%
  • Hindi46K5%
  • English44K5%
  • Russian34K4%
  • Polish15K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bulgarian669,67874%
Hindi46,0905%
English43,6275%
Russian33,7694%
Polish14,5562%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mariya is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name21K records spelled Mariya5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Russia, United States, India

    Languages: Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese

    Also written Mariyà

  • a separate given name7.9K records spelled Mariya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Also written Māriya, Māriyā

  • Vietnamese given name3.2K records spelled Mariya25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Vietnam, Italy

    Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

    Also written Maria, María, Mária, Marìa, Marïa

  • Finnish given name2.0K records spelled Mariya8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Russia, Latvia, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Màriya, Märîyä, Mârîÿã, Márìÿa, Mâriya

  • Hindi surname1.0K records spelled Mariya128 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, English, Indonesian

    Also written Maurya, Mourya, Maury, Maria

  • Amharic given name898 records spelled Mariya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, United States, Nigeria

    Also written ማርያ, ማሪያ

  • Latvian given name393 records spelled Mariya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, Lithuania, United States

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Mãrįya

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05010015019201940196019802000128 · 1993

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Mariya in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1917–2015
Yearrecords
19171
19184
19191
19202
19214
19223
19236
192410
19256
19266
19278
19289
192912
193013
193111
193211
193315
193419
19359
193615
193716
193817
193911
194013
194121
194217
194314
194430
194521
194633
194726
194819
194931
195026
195131
195245
195334
195439
195525
195636
195743
195839
195945
196052
196134
196248
196358
196460
196556
196665
196753
196854
196953
197057
197155
197273
197355
197454
197558
197666
197764
197864
197956
198065
198190
198281
198371
198487
198582
198680
198793
198894
198997
199087
1991118
1992109
1993128
1994103
199584
199653
199763
199823
19992
20021
20081
20092
20107
20115
20128
20135
20143
20153

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Maria Anna of Spain, b. 1606Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, b. 1772Maria Montessori, b. 1870Corazon Aquino, b. 1933Sonia Sotomayor, b. 1954Halle Berry, b. 1966Steffi Graf, b. 1969Shannen Doherty, b. 1971Cobie Smulders, b. 1982Maria Sharapova, b. 1987
  • Maria Anna of Spainb. 1606ESnot in their usual nameWife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1606-1646)
  • Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicilyb. 1772ITnot in their usual namelast Holy Roman Empress and first Empress of Austria
  • Maria Montessorib. 1870ITnot in their usual nameItalian physician and educator (1870-1952)
  • Corazon Aquinob. 1933PHnot in their usual namePresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
  • Sonia Sotomayorb. 1954USnot in their usual nameUS Supreme Court justice since 2009
  • Halle Berryb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1966)
  • Steffi Grafb. 1969DEnot in their usual nameGerman tennis player
  • Shannen Dohertyb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1971–2024)
  • Cobie Smuldersb. 1982CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress (born 1982)
  • Maria Sharapovab. 1987RUnot in their usual nameRussian 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 58 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Mariya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.9K#2,895
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3.5K#301
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20263.5K#301
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#680
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.8K#1,368
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.3K#510
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.1K#5,241
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—867#641
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—496#2,520
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—243#4,554
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—193#3,515
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020187—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 430 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mariya?
We estimate roughly 21 million people bear Mariya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Mariya have the most bearers?
Mariya is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled maria.
How common is Mariya compared with other names?
In Argentina, Mariya is the most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Mariya a male or female name?
Mariya 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 Mariya mean?
Recorded meaning: cleaning itself; a cat.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Mariya” — the most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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