Marija
Marija was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 519 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marija by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marija mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marija is “a transliteration of the Macedonian or Serbo-Croatian female given name Марија (Marija), equivalent to Mary”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marija?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,814, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 2008, the peak
Marija peaked in 2008, when 21 girls were given it, #6,485 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,814 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,679 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,491 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,039 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,114 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,509 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,466 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,177 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,042 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,109 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,585 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,276 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,554 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,733 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,485 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,837 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,011 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,039 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,080 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,054 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,979 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,537 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,935 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,583 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,492 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,775 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,915 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,349 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,847 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,449 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,206 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,881 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,010 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,293 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,934 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,404 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,492 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,761 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,472 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,613 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,244 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,433 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,152 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,617 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,255 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,267 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,275 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,901 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,113 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,986 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,347 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,768 | 4.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,709 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,446 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,317 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,182 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marija a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marija has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marija: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marija, and how old are they?
An estimated 504 Americans named Marija and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,424 people named Marija (2,417 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 493 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.9 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,796 babies since 1880, Marija is the third most given (5.3% of them).
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 Marija
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 Marija and names like it
- Compare Marija and MaryjoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarija peaked in 2008.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marija since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Marija.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marija alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.