Maryland — unisex name

What the Data Says About Maryland

The Social Security Administration has registered 983 babies named Maryland between 1901 and 2020, spanning 120 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maryland currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Maryland is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 316 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maryland performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 201 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Maryland shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Maryland, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Maryland in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maryland 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 983 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.