Marya

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Marya is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew. See Maria and Mary in main dictionary.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 134◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.7K
  • SESweden1 in 3.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈61K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
257 ●

68K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 134 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

MarjaLatin · Finnish●212K records
МаряCyrillic · Bulgarian●13 records
말야Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled Marja in FI Finland, NL Netherlands, SE Sweden and 7 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●

From Hebrew. See Maria and Mary in main dictionary.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Marya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#5141,659△5K rec.1 in 13454KMarja95
NL Netherlands#4946,4519.3K rec.1 in 2.7K6.5KMarja73
BR Brazil—6,0414.8K rec.1 in 35K6KMarya76
US United States—3,03231K rec.1 in 110K3KMarya257
SE Sweden#6562,832△1.1K rec.1 in 3.6K2.8KMarja40
MX Mexico—2,7782.1K rec.—2Marya38
GB United Kingdom—1,6071.5K rec.—listedMarya65
ID Indonesia—1,596296 rec.—listedMarya70
DE Germany—1,4061.3K rec.—2Marja69
CA Canada—1,052889 rec.—2Marya47
AU Australia—950882 rec.—1Marja48
FR France—900△2 rec.1 in 75K900—3

Roughly 42K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 134). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Portuguese52K43%
  • English30K25%
  • Spanish6.8K6%
  • French5.2K4%
  • Arabic4.2K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese51,88543%
English29,89925%
Spanish6,7786%
French5,1674%
Arabic4,1883%

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◐

Marya is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name5.7K records spelled Marya12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Syria

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Màrya, Maryã, Mãrÿã, Màryà, Mârya

  • a separate given name4.2K records spelled Marya5 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Maryâ, Māryā, Maryá, Márya

  • Turkish given name3.0K records spelled Marya6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Afghanistan, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

    Also written Marýa, Mårÿã

  • Romanian given name270 records spelled Marya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Italy, Romania, United States

    Also written Māŕýä, Måŕyä

  • Finnish given name240 records spelled Marya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Italy

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Märyä

48 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.

Other recorded senses●

Marya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kcn, woman

    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●

020406019201940196019802000202049 · 1971

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Marya in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1909–2025
Yearrecords
19095
19126
19158
19169
19175
19188
19198
192110
19235
19266
19275
19306
19328
19346
19365
19378
19388
19396
19406
19415
194210
194310
194414
19458
194610
194715
194815
194915
19508
19519
195217
195320
195423
195525
195622
195720
195813
195922
196018
196120
196232
196334
196437
196546
196630
196740
196844
196944
197030
197149
197246
197340
197445
197537
197630
197740
197843
197928
198032
198128
198226
198326
198429
198529
198618
198719
198821
198927
199026
199129
199232
199328
199420
199525
199616
199730
199831
199936
200030
200121
200225
200314
200423
200532
200632
200721
200830
200931
201018
201125
201222
201318
201426
201518
201621
201720
201818
201912
202013
202114
202210
202314
202417
202516

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 104 years between 1909–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Marya Freund, b. 1876Marya Zaturenska, b. 1902Marya Mannes, b. 1904Marya Carter, b. 1942Marya Cohn, b. 1953Marya Lieberman, b. 1967Marya Hornbacher, b. 1974Marya Delver, b. 1974Rupa Marya, b. 1975Marya Zarif, b. 1982

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 57 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Marya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20226K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6K#2,402
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203K#5,585
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.1K#8,539
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024900#982
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—249#1,988
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—186#5,512
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—172#5,371
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020162—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—94#16,616
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—90#5,890

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 414 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marya?
We estimate roughly 61 thousand people bear Marya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Marya have the most bearers?
We estimate about 42 thousand people bear Marya in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marja.
Where is Marya most common?
Marya is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 134 people carrying it.
How common is Marya compared with other names?
In Finland, Marya is the 51st most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Marya a male or female name?
Marya 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 Marya mean?
Recorded meaning: From Hebrew. See Maria and Mary in main dictionary.
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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, “Marya” — the 51st most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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