Meaning not yet researched.
Mara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 499 in 2025. Its best rank was #538 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #538 in 1990; #589 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#589 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #538.
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Mara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 499 girls in 2025. Peak: #538 in 1990 · most girls in one year: 568 (2021).
In 2025, 499 US girls were named Mara, making it the 589th most common girls’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 515 girls named Mara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #538, reached in 1990. The most girls given the name in a single year was 568, in 2021. For comparison, it was #737 in 2015 and #921 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mara in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 6 babies. In all, 24,054 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,038 babies named Mara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,777 US girls were named Mara; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 568. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,221 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mara ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #149 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mayra (33,561 babies since 1880), Maura (19,970 babies since 1880), Maira (6,358 babies since 1880) and Marah (2,365 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maraya, Maraia and Maraih are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maraya (935), Maraia (12), Maraih (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 8 | #149 | — |
| Minnesota | 30 | #182 | #440 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #199 | — |
| Iowa | 13 | #268 | #354 |
| Michigan | 29 | #310 | #416 |
| Ohio | 34 | #330 | #368 |
| Illinois | 30 | #348 | #521 |
| Nevada | 8 | #359 | — |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #381 | #323 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #437 | #514 |
| Colorado | 12 | #483 | — |
| Washington | 14 | #500 | #628 |
| Indiana | 13 | #533 | #664 |
| California | 57 | #571 | #1,195 |
| Utah | 7 | #582 | #605 |
| New York | 28 | #602 | #656 |
| Maryland | 7 | #697 | #612 |
| Missouri | 8 | #702 | #656 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #727 | #721 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #755 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #757 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #793 | #922 |
| Florida | 18 | #904 | #1,095 |
| Georgia | 10 | #962 | #1,030 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,076 | #1,190 |
| Texas | 26 | #1,082 | #1,344 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,133 | #575 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 499 | #589 | — | — |
| 2024 | 515 | #589 | — | — |
| 2023 | 516 | #581 | — | — |
| 2022 | 478 | #620 | — | — |
| 2021 | 568 | #540 | — | — |
| 2020 | 463 | #628 | — | — |
| 2019 | 439 | #663 | — | — |
| 2018 | 432 | #676 | — | — |
| 2017 | 440 | #668 | — | — |
| 2016 | 427 | #686 | — | — |
| 2015 | 383 | #737 | — | — |
| 2014 | 409 | #694 | — | — |
| 2013 | 366 | #742 | — | — |
| 2012 | 336 | #798 | — | — |
| 2011 | 312 | #846 | — | — |
| 2010 | 308 | #868 | — | — |
| 2009 | 377 | #754 | — | — |
| 2008 | 355 | #811 | — | — |
| 2007 | 389 | #752 | — | — |
| 2006 | 415 | #683 | — | — |
| 2005 | 415 | #672 | — | — |
| 2004 | 427 | #642 | — | — |
| 2003 | 417 | #639 | — | — |
| 2002 | 420 | #608 | — | — |
| 2001 | 405 | #622 | — | — |
| 2000 | 418 | #606 | — | — |
| 1999 | 363 | #645 | — | — |
| 1998 | 411 | #590 | — | — |
| 1997 | 412 | #568 | — | — |
| 1996 | 393 | #584 | — | — |
| 1995 | 350 | #625 | — | — |
| 1994 | 370 | #606 | — | — |
| 1993 | 376 | #610 | — | — |
| 1992 | 371 | #614 | — | — |
| 1991 | 400 | #578 | — | — |
| 1990 | 443 | #538 | — | — |
| 1989 | 410 | #554 | 5 | #8,739 |
| 1988 | 331 | #605 | — | — |
| 1987 | 269 | #688 | — | — |
| 1986 | 204 | #824 | — | — |
| 1985 | 203 | #812 | — | — |
| 1984 | 230 | #719 | — | — |
| 1983 | 241 | #709 | 6 | #5,951 |
| 1982 | 239 | #726 | 5 | #6,984 |
| 1981 | 237 | #708 | — | — |
| 1980 | 259 | #674 | — | — |
| 1979 | 242 | #700 | — | — |
| 1978 | 273 | #621 | — | — |
| 1977 | 236 | #668 | — | — |
| 1976 | 285 | #574 | — | — |
| 1975 | 237 | #647 | — | — |
| 1974 | 227 | #666 | — | — |
| 1973 | 242 | #627 | — | — |
| 1972 | 270 | #594 | — | — |
| 1971 | 267 | #626 | — | — |
| 1970 | 286 | #607 | — | — |
| 1969 | 258 | #619 | — | — |
| 1968 | 221 | #654 | — | — |
| 1967 | 226 | #639 | — | — |
| 1966 | 185 | #726 | — | — |
| 1965 | 193 | #709 | — | — |
| 1964 | 179 | #773 | — | — |
| 1963 | 171 | #794 | — | — |
| 1962 | 168 | #810 | — | — |
| 1961 | 187 | #766 | — | — |
| 1960 | 152 | #841 | — | — |
| 1959 | 139 | #881 | — | — |
| 1958 | 170 | #768 | — | — |
| 1957 | 150 | #829 | — | — |
| 1956 | 180 | #718 | — | — |
| 1955 | 163 | #744 | — | — |
| 1954 | 176 | #701 | — | — |
| 1953 | 113 | #892 | — | — |
| 1952 | 126 | #809 | — | — |
| 1951 | 106 | #874 | — | — |
| 1950 | 94 | #921 | — | — |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1948 | 38 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,879 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,132 | — | — |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,657 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,260 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,384 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).