Maral
Maral was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,162 among girls’ names; 362 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maral by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maral?
#8,162 among girls’ names, 2025
Maral rose from #11,516 in 2015 to #8,162 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 8.1 per million.
14 babies in 1990, the peak
Maral peaked in 1990, when 14 girls were given it, #6,327 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,162 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,615 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,525 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,421 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,615 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,745 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,435 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,280 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,516 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,585 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #11,610 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,937 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,887 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,653 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,351 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,338 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,380 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,564 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,282 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,379 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,127 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,653 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,739 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,097 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,841 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,151 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,071 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,222 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,327 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,282 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,127 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,586 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,043 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,104 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,572 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,745 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,184 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,665 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,589 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,675 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,648 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,214 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,619 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,708 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maral a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maral has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maral: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maral, and how old are they?
An estimated 354 Americans named Maral and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 12 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,062 people named Maral (1,049 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 308 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,283 babies since 1880, Maral is the second most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 316 babies (4.1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maral
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maral and names like it
- Compare Maral and MarielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaral peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maral since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Maral.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maral alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.