Marja — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marja

The Social Security Administration has registered 437 babies named Marja between 1921 and 1999, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marja currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 45 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marja performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 113 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Marja shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Marja in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marja 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 437 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.