Maral
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: doe, female deer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mˈɑrɑɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maral is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Turkmenistan than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 189(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 3.6K
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 4.9K
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 Maral 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.
- Turkmenistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 189 (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Марал in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
deer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Maral is read(measured from records)
Maral is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Turkmen39%
Maral ýaly owadan gyz bolsun.
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Maral in English.
- Turkish11%
doe, female deer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Russian6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Maral in Russian.
- Azerbaijani6.7%
deer
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)
Maral 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM Turkmenistan | #6 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 189 | — | Maral | 17 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #310 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 3.7K | Марал | 43 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #468 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 43 | Maral | 12 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Maral | 5 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Марал | 7 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #881 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Марал | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,062 | 1 in 313K | 1K | Maral | 207 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; the uz-ismlarim register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maral is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, mountain deer
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Cebuano, the Visayan leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis javanensis, syn. Prionailurus javanensis rabori) is a Sunda leopard cat subspecies
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yog, bad; evil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maral Rahmanzadeb. 1916AZAzerbaijani painter (1916–2008)
- Maral Yazarloob. 1981IRIranian motor-biking world record holder and fashion designer
- Maral Baniadamb. 1981IRIranian actress
- Maral Noshad Sharifib. 1989NLjournalist from the Netherlands
- Maral Bazarganib. 1990IRsprinter
- Maral Büyüksaraçb. 1996TRTurkish actor (born 1996)
- Maral Artinb. 2000DEGerman association football player
- Maral torkamanb. 2002IRIranian Futsal Player
- Maral DadvarDEscientist
- Maral MohammadianIRIranian-Canadian film producer
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)
Attested in 58 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #11,894 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 43 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #11,894 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Maral come from?
- deer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Maral have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Maral in Turkmenistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maral.
- How do you pronounce Maral?
- A machine transcription gives /mˈɑrɑɫ/ (IPA) for Turkmen.
- What does the name Maral mean?
- In Turkish, doe, female deer
- Is Maral a male or female name?
- Maral is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Maral?
- In the etymology graph, Meral is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Maral?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,062 people named Maral in 2020, about 1 in 313 thousand residents.
- How common is Maral compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Maral is the 6th most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maral?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maralThe 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, “Maral” — the 6th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.