Maree
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic name; meaning not clear in context
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maree is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 132K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arabic name; meaning not clear in context.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maree 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | #159 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 97 | Maree | 222 |
| NZ New Zealand | #168 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 12 | Maree | 119 |
| US United States | — | 806 | 1 in 413K | 785 | Maree | 246 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Maree | 95 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 5 | Maree | 130 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Maree | 31 |
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: NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). 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)
Maree is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Teutonic; famous battle maiden
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In German, wdbl. Vom., englische Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In yol, a female given name, equivalent to English Mary
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gv, third-person singular of marish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of marear:
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)
- Maree Cheathamb. 1942USAmerican actress
- Maree Fishb. 1963AUAustralian field hockey player
- Julie McDonaldb. 1970AUnot in their usual nameAustralian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
- Melinda Gainsford-Taylorb. 1971AUnot in their usual nameAustralian sprinter
- adrienne maree brownb. 1978USwriter
- Shelly Liddelowb. 1984AUnot in their usual nameAustralian field hockey player
- Delissa Kimminceb. 1989AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rules footballer and cricketer
- Rachel Jarryb. 1991AUnot in their usual nameAustralian basketball player (born 1991)
- Zendayab. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer (born 1996)
- Maree ToddGBScottish politician
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 41 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 785 | #14,586 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1961 | 288 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1963 | 275 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1962 | 273 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1960 | 272 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1964 | 247 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1965 | 224 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1967 | 213 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1966 | 199 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1968 | 193 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1958 | 190 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1958 | 187 | #51 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Maree mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic name; meaning not clear in context. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Maree?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Maree?
- In the United States, the national register counted 806 people named Maree in 2020, about 1 in 413 thousand residents.
- How common is Maree compared with other names?
- In Australia, Maree is the 159th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Maree?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Maree a male or female name?
- Maree 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.
- In which country does Maree have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Maree in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maree.
What do you want to know about Maree?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mareeThe 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, “Maree” — the 159th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.