In 2025, 38 US girls were named Mariya, making it the 3,879th most common girls’ name of the year, up 971 places from #4,850 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 28 girls named Mariya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,589, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 142. For comparison, it was #1,994 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mariya in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 2,639 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 893 babies named Mariya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 460 US girls were named Mariya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,297 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mary (4,156,654 babies since 1880), Maria (570,389 babies since 1880), Marie (542,270 babies since 1880) and Mario (152,403 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.