Марија
given name · Cyrillic script
Meaning, in Serbian: a female given name, equivalent to English Mary
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/mǎrija/(recorded in a dictionary) Serbian · from Wiktionary
Марија is a female given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- MXMexico≈1 in 13as Maria(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 15as Maria
- ECEcuador1 in 16as Maria
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 Марија 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 named Maria, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est., as Maria
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)14 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)a female given name, Marija, masculine equivalent Ма́ријан (Márijan), equivalent to English Mary
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Марија is read
(measured from records)Марија is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Serbian72%
a female given name, equivalent to English Mary
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Macedonian25%
a female given name, Marija, masculine equivalent Ма́ријан (Márijan), equivalent to English Mary
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Марија 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 | 12,284,478as Maria | 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 | 1,042,139as Maria | 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)- Anne d'Autricheb. 1601ESnot in their usual nameQueen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived (1601-1666)
- Maria Anna of Spainb. 1606ESWife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1606-1646)
- Maria Theresa of Austriab. 1717ATruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)
- Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicilyb. 1772ITlast Holy Roman Empress and first Empress of Austria
- Isabel II de Españab. 1830ESnot in their usual nameQueen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
- Maria Montessorib. 1870ITItalian physician and educator (1870-1952)
- Corazon Aquinob. 1933PHnot in their usual namePresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
- Sonia Sotomayorb. 1954USnot in their usual nameUS Supreme Court justice since 2009
- Halle Berryb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1966)
- Steffi Grafb. 1969DEnot in their usual nameGerman tennis player
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- poreklo.rs (Порекло) — Друштво српских родословаца "Порекло" (Society of Serbian Genealogists "Poreklo") surname-origin site
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
- Where does the name Марија come from?
- a female given name, Marija, masculine equivalent Ма́ријан (Márijan), equivalent to English Mary Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Марија?
- It depends on the language: in Serbian /mǎrija/ (Wiktionary); in Macedonian /ˈmaɾi(j)a/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Марија a male or female name?
- Марија is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: North Macedonia (State Statistical Office).
- What does the name Марија mean?
- In Serbian, a female given name, equivalent to English Mary
- In which country does Марија have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 million people named Maria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Марија?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,284,478 people named Maria in 2022, about 1 in 17 residents.
- How common is Марија compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Марија 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/%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0The 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, “Марија” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.