Marï

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marï is a 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 Akkadian 𒈠𒌷𒆠 (ma-riᵏⁱ), from Mer, an ancient storm/patron deity of Mesopotamia and Syria. Also see Nûr-Mêr.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 16as Maria(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 16as Maria
  • BRBrazil1 in 17as 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 Marï 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)

12,284,478 named Maria, 2022

#1 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

11 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
679 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 16 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador, as Maria

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MariaLatin(measured from records)
МарияCyrillic(measured from records)
מריםHebrew(measured from records)
ΜαριαGreek(measured from records)
ՄարիամArmenian(measured from records)
มาเรียมThai(measured from records)
ማርያምEthiopic(measured from records)
მარიამGeorgian(measured from records)
마리아Hangul(measured from records)
ମାରିଆOdia(measured from records)
ਮਾਰੀਆGurmukhi(measured from records)

11 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maria in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, EC Ecuador and 1 more, Mary in US United States, PH Philippines, CZ Czechia 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)

From Akkadian 𒈠𒌷𒆠 (ma-riᵏⁱ), from Mer, an ancient storm/patron deity of Mesopotamia and Syria. Also see Nûr-Mêr.

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marï 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.

Where Marï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#112,284,478as Maria1 in 1712MMaria306
AR Argentina#1≈2,300,000 est.≈1 in 205.3KMaria253
RU Russia#19≈2,000,000 est.≈1 in 72#4Мария263
US United States#11,768,343as Mary1 in 1881.8MMary679
PH Philippines#1≈1,200,000 est.≈1 in 9227KMary225
EC Ecuador#11,042,139as Maria1 in 161MMaria165
CZ Czechia#22521,052as Marie1 in 21521KMary130
SV El Salvador#2≈410,000 est.≈1 in 16627Maria110

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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; 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; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marï is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Mari, Marí, Mari', Màri, Marì

  • Finnish given name42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Mari, Mári, Märï, Märi, Marí

  • a separate given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Norway, United Kingdom

    Also written Mari, Marí, MåRi, Marì, Mãrï

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Marï under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Marï mean, and where does it come from?
From Akkadian 𒈠𒌷𒆠 (ma-riᵏⁱ), from Mer, an ancient storm/patron deity of Mesopotamia and Syria. Also see Nûr-Mêr. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
Is Marï a male or female name?
Marï 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 Marï have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 million people named Maria, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Marï most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Marï itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 16 people named Maria.
How common is the name Marï?
In Brazil, the national register counted 12,284,478 people named Maria in 2022, about 1 in 17 residents.
How common is Marï compared with other names?
In Brazil, Marï is the most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Marï” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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