Given name

Maari

Maari is a given name from English. It is used in Pitcairn-Norfolk.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Maari comes from English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From English Mary.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Maari through the years

Babies since 1880
17
0 boys · 17 girls
Most popular year
1988
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
01234198020002025Highest share 19880.0
Maari in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1974–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Maari’s family of names

Maari has a conventional equivalent in the French form Marie.

Walk Maari’s family in the name graph

MaariMarie

The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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