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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Maria

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#87

down −13 places

2025 births

2,887

down −235 births

All-time births

566,111

1% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1964
10,148 births
Best rank
#30
in 1975
First recorded
1880
#131 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1973
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 196410,148#41Peak
  2. 19639,854#43
  3. 19659,480#46
  4. 19669,132#44
  5. 19629,089#49

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #30 in 1975 · peak births 10,148 in 1964

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

4,278 boys · 566,111 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Maria has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.