Meaning & origin
What it means
Maral is a romanization of Մարալ. Մարալ goes back to a word meaning “deer.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maral through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 362
- 0 boys · 362 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #8,164 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +40%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,164 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,062 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.
Maral’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Maral shares an earlier linguistic root with Meral. In Armenian usage, Maral is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Մարալ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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.
People named Maral
- Maral RahmanzadehAzerbaijani painter (1916–2008)
- Maral YazarlooIranian motor-biking world record holder and fashion designerborn 1981
- Maral BaniadamIranian actressborn 1981
- Maral Feizbakhshsprinterborn 1990
- Maral ArtinGerman association football playerborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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