Maras

loc · Latin script

Meaning: nickname from Albanian marre ‘crazy’, ‘wild’, ‘strong’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Maras is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
  • MEMontenegro≈1 in 7.8K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 34K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

1,826 people, 2021

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MarasLatin(measured from records)
ΜαραςGreek(measured from records)
МарашCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maraš in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, ME Montenegro.

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)

nickname from Albanian marre ‘crazy’, ‘wild’, ‘strong’. This element is also found as part of composite names such as Maragiannis ‘crazy John’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maras 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 Maras is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia—1,8261 in 2.3K1.8KMaraš69
US United States—8701 in 382K977—58
PL Poland—6991 in 55K363——
AR Argentina—5411 in 84K541—1
FR France—≈230 est.≈1 in 295K17—1
RS Serbia—≈200 est.≈1 in 34K—Maraš23
NO Norway—1541 in 36K154—1
ME Montenegro#110≈79 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Maraš12

1,826 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021, counting the spelling maras. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maras is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Maraş, Maraš, Marås, Maraś

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Argentina, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Marasia, Marás, Maraş, Maraš, Marãs

  • Polish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Maraś, Maraş, Maraš

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Maraš, Mařas

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Maraš, Marås, Maraś, Mařas, Maraş

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Maraş, Maraš

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maras 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.

  • topographic name from Polish dialect maras ‘marsh’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from a pet form of any of several personal name beginning with Mar-, e.g. Marijan, Marin, Marko.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from the name for a man who was the son or husband of a woman called Man, Czech form of Maria.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from a derivative of the personal names Marek or Martin.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Portuguese, second-person singular present indicative of marar

    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)

19201940196019802000Mate Maras, b. 1939Tommy Maras, b. 1967Craig R. Maras, b. 1968Daniele Federico Maras, b. 1973Gordan Maras, b. 1974Robert Maras, b. 1978Ana Maras, b. 1981Alen Maras, b. 1982

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Maras
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.8K#226
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)20211.7K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020977#26,329
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000892#25,885
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010870#27,646
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—541—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026363—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—363#9,141
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026336—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—336#9,699
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197139—

Reference works 6

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 Maras come from?
nickname from Albanian marre ‘crazy’, ‘wild’, ‘strong’. This element is also found as part of composite names such as Maragiannis ‘crazy John’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Maras mean?
Recorded meaning: nickname from Albanian marre ‘crazy’, ‘wild’, ‘strong’.
In which country does Maras have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Maras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maraš.
Where is Maras most common?
Maras is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Maras?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,826 people named Maras in 2021, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
How common is Maras compared with other names?
In Montenegro, Maras is the 110th most common surname of 2,395 surnames 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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maras” — the 110th most common surname in Montenegro. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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