Mária
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries
/ˈmaːrijɒ/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Mária is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Vulgate Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מרים (Maryām), corresponding to the Hebrew מרים (Miryām).
- MXMexico≈1 in 13(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 15
- ECEcuador1 in 16
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mária itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #1 (measured from records)
- 11 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 679 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13 (inferred from the name graph)
12,284,478 people, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maria in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, AR Argentina and 2 more, Mary in US United States and Мария in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Vulgate LatinMaria(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜαρίαMaría(measured from records)
- AramaicמריםMaryām(measured from records)
From Vulgate Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מרים (Maryām), corresponding to the Hebrew מרים (Miryām).
Cited for this meaning 12
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Russian Names
Attested across 34 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mária counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #1 | 12,284,478 | 1 in 17 | 12M | Maria | 306 |
| MX Mexico | #1 | ≈9,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 13 | 1.7K | Maria | 303 |
| AR Argentina | #1 | ≈2,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 19 | 5.3K | Maria | 253 |
| RU Russia | #19 | ≈2,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 70 | register #4 | Мария | 263 |
| US United States | #1 | 1,768,343as Mary | 1 in 188 | 1.8M | Mary | 679 |
| EC Ecuador | #1 | 1,042,139 | 1 in 16 | 1M | Maria | 165 |
| SV El Salvador | #2 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 15 | 627 | Maria | 110 |
12,284,478 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; This page discusses the popularity of names in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and Puno, Peru in the 1980s, published by Maybe i. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maria Theresa of Austriab. 1717ATruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)
- Teréz Brunszvikb. 1775HUnot in their usual nameHungarian noble (1775-1861)
- Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, 2nd Princess of Koháryb. 1797HUHungarian noblewoman
- Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austriab. 1867HUAustrian archduchess (1867-1932)
- Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austriab. 1868HUnot in their usual nameAustrian archduchess (1868-1924)
- Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austriab. 1870HUnot in their usual namearchduchess of Austria (1870–1955)
- Mária Telkesb. 1900HUHungarian–American scientist and inventor (1900–1995)
- Mária Mednyánszkyb. 1901HUHungarian table tennis player (1901-1978)
- Mari Törőcsikb. 1935HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actress (1935-2021)
- Ahna Caprib. 1944HUnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1944-2010)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 12M | #3 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mária mean, and where does it come from?
- From Vulgate Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מרים (Maryām), corresponding to the Hebrew מרים (Miryām). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 10 other sources.
- Is Mária a male or female name?
- Mária is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025) and Poland (dane.gov.pl).
- How do you pronounce Mária?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈmaːrijɒ/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈmaː.ri.a/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /maːrɪa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What are other forms of the name Mária?
- In the etymology graph, Mary, Marie and Marilyn are forms of the same name in other languages; Mari, Maja and Marika are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Mária have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 million people named Mária, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maria.
- How common is the name Mária?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,284,478 people named Mária in 2022, about 1 in 17 residents.
- How common is Mária compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mária is the most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1riaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Mária” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.