Given name
Macaria
“one who is blessed”
Macaria is used as a given name. One Spanish interpretation is “one who is blessed.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “one who is blessed.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Macaria through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 385
- 0 boys · 385 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,530 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −19%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,530 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 994 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.
Macaria’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Macaria has a diminutive in CARIA. Macaria has a related form in Macarea. In Cebuano usage, Macaria has a diminutive in KARET.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Karyadiminutive · ceb
- Cariadiminutive · ceb
- Makariavariant
- Makringdiminutive · ceb
- Karetdiminutive · ceb
- Macareahvariant
- Macareavariant
- Makarriavariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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