Māris

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds

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

Māris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 91K(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 153
  • ISIceland1 in 7.8K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (measured from records)

12,314 people

Sources
285 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 153 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maris in US United States, LV Latvia.

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)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Māris 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 Māris is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#84112,3141 in 15312KMaris42
US United States—3,6491 in 91K3.2KMaris285
BR Brazil—2,8211 in 75K2.8K—4
HR Croatia—1841 in 23K719——
SE Sweden—1651 in 62K165—10
AL Albania—1321 in 23K90——
IS Iceland—451 in 7.8K45——

12,314 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling māris. 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; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

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

  • Russian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Марис, Maris, Маріс, Марись, Мэрис

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Máris, Maris, Mariș, Mariş, Mariš

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Maris

  • Croatian given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Latvia, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Maris, Марис, Мариш, Mariš, Märis

  • Spanish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian

    Also written Maris, Mari'S, Marís, Märïs, Mariş

  • Hindi given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Latvia, Nigeria

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Maris, Mariș, Marís, Mariş

35 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Māris Liepa, b. 1936Māris Čaklais, b. 1940Māris Gailis, b. 1951Māris Martinsons, b. 1960Māris Kučinskis, b. 1961Māris Gulbis, b. 1971Māris Smirnovs, b. 1976Māris Verpakovskis, b. 1979Māris Štrombergs, b. 1987Māris Bogdanovičs, b. 1991

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)

InformalSveiki Māris,Hi Māris, (English)

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 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Māris
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—12K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—12K#21

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 are other forms of the name Māris?
In the etymology graph, Mauricio, Maurice and Maurizio are forms of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Māris mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Is Māris a male or female name?
Māris 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 Māris have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Māris, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maris.
Where is Māris most common?
Māris is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 153 people carrying it.
How common is the name Māris?
In Latvia, the national register counted 12,314 people named Māris, about 1 in 153 residents.
How common is Māris compared with other names?
In Latvia, Māris is the 841st most common given name of 11,601 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, “Māris” — the 841st most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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