Māra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Māra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Croatia it is the 30th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A goddess in Latvian mythology.
- HRCroatia1 in 238(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 13K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.5Kas Мара
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 Māra 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 238 (inferred from the name graph)
81,102 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mara in HR Croatia, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more and Мара in MK North Macedonia.
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)
A goddess in Latvian mythology.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Māra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 81,102 | 1 in 2.6K | 89K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 24,761 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Mara | 204 |
| HR Croatia | #30 | 17,774 | 1 in 238 | 18K | Mara | 61 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,857 | 1 in 5.1K | 9.9K | Mara | 38 |
| LV Latvia | — | 4,142 | 1 in 454 | 4.1K | Māra | 9 |
| BG Bulgaria | #441 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Mara | 40 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 1,777as Мара | 1 in 1.2K | 1.8K | Мара | 2 |
81,102 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Māra 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 Latvian, Dievība senlatviešu mitoloģijā, galvenā gādniece par cilvēkiem un dzīvniekiem, nosaka cilvēka dzīvi, piešķir tikumu, rūpējas par bāreņiem un slimniekiem, nes svētību sētai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, budisma mitoloģijā - dēmondievība, kas saistīta ar ļaunumu, iznīcību, pasaulīgo kārdinājumu veltīgumu; hinduismā - nāves dieviete
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Pārdabiska būtne budismā, kas Budu centās atraut no meditācijas, lai viņš neapskaidrotos
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Mara, Rīvas pieteka
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Māra Skrīveleb. 1935LVLatvian breeder
- Māra Svīreb. 1936LVLatvian writer
- Mara Zemdegab. 1940LVLatvian actor
- Māra Brašmaneb. 1944LVLatvian photographer
- Māra Krievkalneb. 1944LVLatvian singer
- Māra Vaičunasb. 1944LVLatvian painter
- Māra Zālīteb. 1952LVLatvian writer (born 1952)
- Māra Marnauzab. 1963LV1963-
- Māra Lisenkob. 1986LVMetal singer from Latvia
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Māra mean, and where does it come from?
- A goddess in Latvian mythology. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Māra a male or female name?
- Māra 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.
- What are other forms of the name Māra?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Māra have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named Māra, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Māra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Māra is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 238 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Māra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 81,102 people named Māra in 2022, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Māra compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Māra is the 30th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Māra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C4%81raThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Māra” — the 30th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.