Marú
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: title of an Umbrian magistrate.
- USUnited States1 in 472K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 293K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
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 Marú 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)
704 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maru in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
title of an Umbrian magistrate
Sources 4
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marú 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 704 | 1 in 472K | 661 | Maru | 174 |
| BR Brazil | 75 | 1 in 2.8M | 138 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 1 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 19 | 1 in 293K | 47 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 11 | Maru | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
704 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Marú is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, verbal noun of maraigh
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marú mean, and where does it come from?
- title of an Umbrian magistrate Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Marú have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 704 people named Marú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maru.
- Where is Marú most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marú is densest in Finland — about 1 in 293 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 704 people named Marú in 2020, about 1 in 472 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/mar%C3%BAThe 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, “Marú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.