Mariya
Mariya was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,878 among girls’ names; 2,639 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,610 Americans named Mariya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mariya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mariya?
#3,878 among girls’ names, 2025
Mariya fell from #1,994 in 2015 to #3,878 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 56.0 to 23.6 per million.
142 babies in 2009, the peak
Mariya peaked in 2009, when 142 girls were given it, #1,589 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,878 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,847 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,409 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,633 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,469 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,232 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,977 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,230 | 29.4 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,708 | 37.1 |
| 2016 | 75 | #2,457 | 42.3 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,994 | 56.0 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,947 | 57.7 |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,027 | 54.7 |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,073 | 52.8 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,137 | 51.2 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,921 | 59.1 |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,589 | 77.3 |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,784 | 65.6 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,919 | 56.2 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,142 | 47.9 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,828 | 57.9 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,357 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,593 | 33.9 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,484 | 35.6 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,553 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,471 | 34.1 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,241 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,383 | 33.4 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,465 | 30.4 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,573 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,604 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,275 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,429 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,178 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,308 | 29.9 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,323 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,186 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,412 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,452 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,354 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,299 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,742 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,051 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,922 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,861 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,179 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,497 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,719 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,820 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,793 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,500 | 8.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,950 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,629 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mariya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mariya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mariya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mariya, and how old are they?
2,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,639 Americans ever recorded as Mariya. The median Mariya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 7,885 people named Mariya (7,868 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,387 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 412 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 754 |
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 Mariya born?
The states with the most babies named Mariya are California, Texas and Florida, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 211 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 141 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 107 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 97 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 84 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 80 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 57 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 23 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Mariya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mariya?
Mariya is a less common spelling of Maria: SSA has recorded 2,639 Mariya and 570,389 Maria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,434,485 babies since 1880, Mariya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 7,037 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Mariya
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 Mariya and names like it
- Compare Mariya and MariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMariya peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mariya since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Mariya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mariya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.