Maral — #13741 US girls' name
349 babies named Maral in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 22% of names given to girls today.
26% of everyone ever named Maral was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Maral in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maral
The Social Security Administration has registered 349 babies named Maral between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maral currently holds the #13741 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maral performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Maral shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 82 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Maral in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maral in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 349 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Maral at a glance
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Current rank
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Maral popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1968
- Peak year (1990)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 57 years of records
Currently ranks #13741 among girls.
349 total births across 57 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 14 births in a single year.
Maral by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 89 births that decade — 26% of Maral's all-time total
Maral decade highlights
- Peak decade 89 births
- Runner-up 66 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Maral's strongest decade
89 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
Maral by state
Where Maral concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 82 | 23.5% |
82 of 349 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 23.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 23.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.