Maru
given name · Latin script
Meaning: desert; mountain; rock, 3, an Ikgvaku king who was the son of Sighra, the father of Prastigruta who became immortal by his yogic power (Bhd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maru/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maru is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 34K
- CLChile≈1 in 40K
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.
- Spain (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
desert; mountain; rock, 3, an Ikgvaku king who was the son of Sighra, the father of Prastigruta who became immortal by his yogic power (Bhd. Purdna); a Videha king of the Nimi dynasty (Bhd. Parana); a warrior of Narakasura killed by Krsna (M. Bh.); a son of Haryasva (V. Ramdyana); a vasu (H. Purdna).
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maru 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 7 | Maru | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 224K | listed | — | — |
| AR Argentina | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 116 | — | — |
| US United States | 704 | 1 in 472K | 661 | Maru | 128 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 321K | listed | Maru | 8 |
| CL Chile | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 2 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 12 | — | 1 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)
Maru 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, A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Marriner, Marryner, Maryn, Maryna, Conocido, bueno
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Apacible
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Clouds.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Hungarian, title of an Umbrian magistrate
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
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)
- Anne d'Autricheb. 1601ESnot in their usual nameQueen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived (1601-1666)
- Luisa de Guzmánb. 1613ESnot in their usual nameDuchess of Braganza; Queen consort of Portugal (1613-1666)
- Isabel II de Españab. 1830ESnot in their usual nameQueen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
- Alfonso XIIIb. 1886ESnot in their usual nameKing of Spain from 1886 to 1931 (1886–1941)
- José María Balcázarb. 1943PEnot in their usual namePeruvian lawyer and politician, president of Peru (feb.-jul. 2026)
- Rosario Murillob. 1951NInot in their usual nameco-president of Nicaragua since 2025
- María Corina Machadob. 1967VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan politician, activist and Nobel laureate (born 1967)
- Arantxa Sánchez Vicariob. 1971ESnot in their usual nameSpanish tennis player
- Cote de Pablob. 1979CLnot in their usual nameChilean-American actress
- José María Giménezb. 1995UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
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 46 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 661 | #36,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 419 | #49,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 216 | #81,414 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 116 | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 12 | #24 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Maru mean?
- Recorded meaning: desert; mountain; rock, 3, an Ikgvaku king who was the son of Sighra, the father of Prastigruta who became immortal by his yogic power (Bhd.
- Where does the name Maru come from?
- desert; mountain; rock, 3, an Ikgvaku king who was the son of Sighra, the father of Prastigruta who became immortal by his yogic power (Bhd. Purdna); a Videha king of the Nimi dynasty (Bhd. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Maru?
- A machine transcription gives /maru/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Maru have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Maru in Spain, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maru.
- Is Maru a male or female name?
- Maru is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How common is the name Maru?
- In the United States, the national register counted 704 people named Maru 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/maruThe 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, “Maru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.