Marya
Marya was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,021 among girls’ names; 2,211 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Marya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 24 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marya?
#7,021 among girls’ names, 2025
Marya fell from #6,889 in 2015 to #7,021 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 10.0 per million.
49 babies in 1971, the peak
Marya peaked in 1971, when 49 girls were given it, #1,817 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,021 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,833 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,900 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,147 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,881 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,252 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,920 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,692 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,205 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,110 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,889 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,253 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,917 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,040 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,478 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,109 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,765 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,970 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,469 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,536 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,327 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,485 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,844 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,844 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,485 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,133 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,475 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,790 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,773 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,958 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,171 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,951 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,838 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,464 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,681 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,964 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,743 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,253 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,409 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,465 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,141 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,037 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,208 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,311 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,113 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,840 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,042 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,175 | 28.1 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,289 | 26.1 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,637 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,263 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,929 | 30.7 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,049 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,847 | 30.2 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,817 | 29.5 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,490 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,888 | 26.1 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,799 | 26.8 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,870 | 24.2 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,175 | 17.7 |
| 1965 | 46 | #1,663 | 26.1 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,965 | 19.5 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,043 | 17.6 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,100 | 16.3 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,805 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,954 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,493 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,489 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,615 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,432 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,201 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,275 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,408 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,636 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,895 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,196 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,687 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,664 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,719 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,363 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,580 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,473 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,182 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,133 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,827 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,177 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,098 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,362 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,340 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,634 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,131 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,472 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,377 | 5.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,338 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,658 | 5.1 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,448 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,316 | 8.1 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,681 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,731 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,040 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,173 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,323 | 8.1 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,850 | 10.8 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,417 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marya, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 2,211 Americans ever recorded as Marya. The median Marya alive today is 44 years old; half are between 24 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 3,041 people named Marya (3,032 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,915 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 Marya 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 | 39 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 299 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 578 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 388 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 416 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 216 |
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 Marya born?
The states with the most babies named Marya are California, New York and Illinois, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 142 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
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 Marya 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 Marya?
Marya is a less common spelling of Maria: SSA has recorded 2,211 Marya and 570,389 Maria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,464,388 babies since 1880, Marya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 7,018 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 Marya
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 Marya and names like it
- Compare Marya and MariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarya peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marya since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Marya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.