Maria Paula
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: INEC, 2012
Maria Paula is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 13K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 160Kfew records
- CRCosta Rica1 in 319K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
3,739 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mariapaula in CO Colombia, BR Brazil, CR Costa Rica and 1 more and Maria-Paula in ES Spain.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maria Paula 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 3,739 | 1 in 13K | 3.7K | Maria-Paula | 5 |
| CO Colombia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Mariapaula | 23 |
| BR Brazil | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Mariapaula | 11 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Mariapaula | 5 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 474K | 1 | — | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | 16 | 1 in 319K | 16 | Mariapaula | 5 |
3,739 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling maria paula. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 Paula Menesesb. 1963MZnot in their usual nameSenior researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
- Maria Paula Survillab. 1964CAnot in their usual nameAmerican professor of ethnomusicology and ethnocultural activist
- Maria Paulab. 1970BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian presenter, psychologist, and actress
- María Paula Romob. 1979ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian politician
- Maria Paula Enciso-CalleCOnot in their usual nameColombian herpetologist
- Maria Paula Cabral CampelloPTnot in their usual nameresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.7K | #1,115 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.9K | #676 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2012 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Maria Paula a male or female name?
- Maria Paula is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Spain (INE).
- In which country does Maria Paula have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Maria Paula, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Maria-Paula.
- Where is Maria Paula most common?
- Maria Paula is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maria Paula?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,739 people named Maria Paula, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maria%20paulaThe 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, “Maria Paula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.