Meaning not yet researched.
Maris: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,172 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,172 in 1939; #3,280 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maris in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,280 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #1,172.
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Maris: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,172 in 1939 · most girls in one year: 63 (2020).
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Maris, making it the 3,280th most common girls’ name of the year, up 210 places from #3,490 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 45 girls named Maris in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,172, reached in 1939. The most girls given the name in a single year was 63, in 2020. For comparison, it was #3,743 in 2015 and #2,991 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maris in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 2,903 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 531 babies named Maris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 530 US girls were named Maris; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marius (2,654 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marise, Maryse and Marios 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 Estonian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marise (285), Maryse (127), Marios (106), Marris (68), Marus (35), Marious (16), Marais (6), Marrius (6), Mahrus (5), Marish (5).
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 Maris in the open dataset we use.
Maris is listed as a nickname for Demaris.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,301 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,718 | — | — |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,675 | 5 | #13,349 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,028 | 6 | #11,637 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,355 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,082 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,399 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,563 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,001 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,195 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,118 | 6 | #8,296 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,402 | 5 | #9,324 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,198 | 5 | #9,003 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,190 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,977 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,997 | — | — |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,232 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,333 | — | — |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,716 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,452 | 7 | #5,278 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,619 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,811 | 5 | #6,421 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,404 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,229 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,756 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,355 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,737 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,855 | 6 | #4,769 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,351 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,655 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,912 | 5 | #4,788 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,730 | 7 | #3,561 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,819 | — | — |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,674 | 10 | #2,728 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,817 | 10 | #2,776 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,171 | 11 | #2,621 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,311 | 12 | #2,459 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,276 | 22 | #1,764 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,877 | 14 | #2,273 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,204 | 5 | #4,358 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,007 | 8 | #3,111 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,165 | 6 | #3,684 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,607 | 5 | #4,158 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,047 | 8 | #2,982 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,991 | 5 | #4,006 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,768 | 7 | #3,264 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,178 | 5 | #4,131 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,913 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,397 | — | — |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,835 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,587 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,649 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,587 | 6 | #4,168 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,440 | 5 | #4,643 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,814 | — | — |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,260 | 5 | #4,711 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,179 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,847 | — | — |
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).