Maria

Where Maria comes from

Borrowed from Latin Maria, borrowed from Koine Greek Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ (Mărĭ́ā), borrowed from Aramaic מרים, borrowed from Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryɔm). Doublet of Mary, Marie, and Miriam.
— Wiktionary's entry for Maria
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1870
    Maria Elena born
    Italian physician and educator
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #131 among girls — 125 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1906
    Maria Göppert Mayer born
    German-born American theoretical physicist
  4. 1975
    Peak, #30
    7,542 babies named Maria — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #86.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Maria Elena · Italian physician and educator, 1870–1952
  • Maria Göppert Mayer · German-born American theoretical physicist, 1906–1972
  • Maria Meneghini Callas · American-Greek operatic soprano, 1923–1977
  • Maria Ressa · Filipino journalist, born 1963
  • Maria Sibylla Merian · German-Dutch entomologist, botanist, naturalist, scientific illustrator, graphic artist, painter, and lepidopterologist, 1647–1717

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.