Maris
Maris was given to 48 girls in 2025, #3,280 among girls’ names; 2,903 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,450 Americans named Maris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 12 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maris mean?
Wiktionary, Hungarian section
Maris is “a diminutive of the female given name Mária”
Clipping and -is diminutive of Mária (changing -á- to -a-).
[ˈmɒriʃ]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hungarian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maris?
#3,280 among girls’ names, 2025
Maris rose from #3,742 in 2015 to #3,280 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.0 to 29.9 per million.
68 babies in 2020, the peak
Maris peaked in 2020, when 68 babies were given it (63 girls, #2,675 among girls’ names). The 48 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,280 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,490 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,508 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,300 | 29.9 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,717 | 25.0 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,675 | 39.0 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,028 | 32.2 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,726 | 37.0 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,764 | 35.9 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,850 | 33.9 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,742 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,353 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,299 | 27.9 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,509 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,081 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,453 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,780 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,197 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,979 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,398 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,808 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,203 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,073 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,559 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,997 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,191 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,880 | 26.5 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,712 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,536 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,933 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,861 | 23.9 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,486 | 28.6 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,112 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,396 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,922 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,193 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,184 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,972 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,992 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,949 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,230 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,101 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,332 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,715 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,451 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,439 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,617 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,810 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,403 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,227 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,754 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,354 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,735 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,853 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,349 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,654 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,911 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,728 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,818 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,673 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,868 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,816 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,170 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,310 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,275 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,876 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,203 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,550 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,103 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,006 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,502 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,164 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,606 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,472 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,046 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,990 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,041 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,803 | 16.5 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,069 | 13.0 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,701 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,406 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,782 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,483 | 22.9 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,339 | 27.4 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,782 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,396 | 26.2 |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,172 | 35.6 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,334 | 28.1 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,824 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,637 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,392 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,726 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,295 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,766 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,176 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,911 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,395 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,585 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,439 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,812 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,259 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,677 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,725 | 6.9 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,446 | 7.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,845 | 10.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,903 Americans recorded as Maris, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 48 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maris, and how old are they?
2,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 2,903 Americans ever recorded as Maris. The median Maris alive today is 25 years old; half are between 12 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 3,649 people named Maris (3,237 women and girls, 412 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Maris rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 120 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 325 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 388 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 681 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Maris born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,631 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maris with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maris
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 Maris and names like it
- Compare Maris and DarlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaris peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maris since 1910.
- Hungarian namesWiktionary’s origin for Maris: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Maris.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maris alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.