Given name

Maaria

Maaria is a feminine given name from Danish. It is used in Finnish, Greenlandic, and Ingrian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Maaria comes from Danish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Danish Marie.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Maaria through the years

Babies since 1880
29
0 boys · 29 girls
Most popular year
2007
6 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0123420002025Highest share 20110.0
Maaria in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1998–2025, 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 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 129 as a first name in 2020.

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

Maaria’s family of names

In Ingrian usage, Maaria has a diminutive in Maaro. Maaria has a related form in Maria. In Finnish usage, Maaria has a conventional equivalent in the German form Maria.

Walk Maaria’s family in the name graph

MaariaMariaMaaroMâriaMaryMarieMaarja

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Maaria has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Danish roots to each of them.

GreenlandicDanishCzech

Danishwhere Maaria comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 3

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

People named Maaria

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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