Given name & surname
Maret
“resembling a pearl”·“the child of light”
Maret is a variant of Margaret. Interpretations include “resembling a pearl” and “the child of light”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Maret is a variant of Margaret. Interpretations include “resembling a pearl” and “the child of light”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maret through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 45
- 0 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 1951
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 225 as a first name in 2020; 553 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Maret’s family of names
Maret has a related form in Margaret. In Estonian usage, Maret has a conventional equivalent in the English form Margaret. In Estonian usage, Maret has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Margarita.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Maret has relatives in 6 languages.
7 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
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 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Maret
- Maret AniEstonian tennis player (born 1982)
- Maret GrothuesDutch volleyball playerborn 1988
- Maret MaripuuEstonian politician (born 1974)
- Maret MerisaarEstonian biologist and politician (born 1958)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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