How popular is “Maria” in the USA?

Number of people named “Maria” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Maria” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Maria” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Maria” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Maria” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Maria” by birth year

This chart shows how “Maria” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	125	0.000620397	125		100%
1881	120	0.000622768	120		100%
1882	121	0.000546194	121		100%
1883	141	0.000649931	141		100%
1884	190	0.000780412	190		100%
1885	175	0.000726581	175		100%
1886	180	0.000705009	180		100%
1887	203	0.00082056	203		100%
1888	239	0.000798066	239		100%
1889	238	0.000823683	238		100%
1890	247	0.000819506	247		100%
1891	248	0.000865097	248		100%
1892	301	0.00090019	301		100%
1893	255	0.000784077	255		100%
1894	309	0.000912339	309		100%
1895	295	0.000840408	295		100%
1896	312	0.000872766	312		100%
1897	304	0.000876189	304		100%
1898	329	0.000862487	329		100%
1899	266	0.00078412	266		100%
1900	389	0.000863949	389		100%
1901	350	0.001012111	350		100%
1902	331	0.000855888	331		100%
1903	379	0.000994229	379		100%
1904	393	0.000974014	393		100%
1905	430	0.001014338	430		100%
1906	388	0.000905588	388		100%
1907	490	0.00105288	490		100%
1908	480	0.0009823	480		100%
1909	544	0.001064113	544		100%
1910	621	0.001051276	621		100%
1911	653	0.001013538	646	7	98%
1912	835	0.000845089	828	7	98%
1913	918	0.00080731	909	9	98%
1914	1125	0.000794299	1117	8	99%
1915	1302	0.000710533	1286	16	98%
1916	1276	0.00065963	1261	15	98%
1917	1451	0.00072306	1441	10	99%
1918	1551	0.000714381	1544	7	99%
1919	1698	0.000804646	1678	20	98%
1920	1957	0.000864918	1935	22	98%
1921	2057	0.000881129	2028	29	97%
1922	1954	0.00085359	1929	25	97%
1923	2021	0.000877749	2000	21	98%
1924	2316	0.000972451	2291	25	98%
1925	2393	0.001025585	2360	33	97%
1926	2378	0.001035757	2352	26	98%
1927	2642	0.001139108	2592	50	96%
1928	2603	0.001151292	2565	38	97%
1929	2574	0.001174184	2532	42	97%
1930	2595	0.00116719	2540	55	96%
1931	2222	0.001055889	2185	37	97%
1932	2076	0.000983285	2045	31	97%
1933	1892	0.000946262	1862	30	97%
1934	2015	0.000970235	1990	25	98%
1935	2036	0.000974209	1994	42	96%
1936	2009	0.000966991	1980	29	97%
1937	1978	0.000928346	1953	25	97%
1938	2047	0.000925167	2012	35	97%
1939	2116	0.000960316	2077	39	96%
1940	2169	0.000941944	2135	34	97%
1941	2500	0.001026094	2470	30	98%
1942	2852	0.001043993	2817	35	98%
1943	2888	0.001023185	2863	25	98%
1944	3378	0.001255725	3361	17	99%
1945	3342	0.001259749	3313	29	98%
1946	3986	0.001247454	3960	26	99%
1947	4741	0.001316096	4712	29	99%
1948	4853	0.001405641	4817	36	99%
1949	5167	0.001482735	5123	44	98%
1950	5101	0.001456032	5076	25	99%
1951	5262	0.00142844	5236	26	99%
1952	5725	0.00150737	5694	31	99%
1953	6032	0.001565272	5992	40	99%
1954	6625	0.001664277	6589	36	99%
1955	6252	0.00155713	6209	43	99%
1956	6756	0.001638598	6731	25	99%
1957	6822	0.001623457	6779	43	99%
1958	6931	0.001676623	6899	32	99%
1959	7297	0.001754934	7247	50	99%
1960	7577	0.001824106	7536	41	99%
1961	7985	0.001927673	7947	38	99%
1962	9132	0.002262988	9090	42	99%
1963	9884	0.002497095	9849	35	99%
1964	10196	0.002622694	10147	49	99%
1965	9522	0.002626433	9479	43	99%
1966	9185	0.002642667	9130	55	99%
1967	8933	0.002631302	8878	55	99%
1968	8430	0.002495254	8385	45	99%
1969	8469	0.002436896	8402	67	98%
1970	8746	0.002425056	8684	62	99%
1971	8191	0.002386408	8137	54	99%
1972	7775	0.002473756	7717	58	99%
1973	7730	0.002562244	7665	65	98%
1974	7864	0.002586843	7804	60	98%
1975	7617	0.002522692	7539	78	98%
1976	7418	0.002444715	7358	60	98%
1977	7150	0.002250909	7093	57	98%
1978	7084	0.002231976	7019	65	98%
1979	7421	0.002230538	7335	86	98%
1980	7949	0.002307733	7875	74	98%
1981	7773	0.002246938	7683	90	98%
1982	7462	0.002127161	7346	116	97%
1983	6920	0.001998072	6848	72	98%
1984	6221	0.001783158	6135	86	97%
1985	6107	0.001711071	6013	94	97%
1986	6237	0.001753405	6141	96	97%
1987	5774	0.001601392	5677	97	97%
1988	5813	0.001573189	5713	100	97%
1989	6456	0.001679305	6345	111	97%
1990	7288	0.001843906	7185	103	97%
1991	7229	0.001855843	7136	93	97%
1992	7150	0.001861362	7091	59	98%
1993	7042	0.001867766	6977	65	98%
1994	6793	0.001827228	6752	41	99%
1995	7048	0.00192455	7001	47	99%
1996	7631	0.002092293	7597	34	99%
1997	7350	0.002027167	7313	37	99%
1998	6841	0.001859874	6817	24	99%
1999	7063	0.001912088	7033	30	99%
2000	6872	0.001818036	6856	16	100%
2001	6857	0.001831762	6842	15	100%
2002	6414	0.001715757	6389	25	99%
2003	6109	0.001606651	6090	19	99%
2004	5786	0.001514294	5757	29	99%
2005	5626	0.001463258	5600	26	99%
2006	5617	0.001419801	5604	13	100%
2007	5143	0.001286495	5129	14	99%
2008	4605	0.001171557	4592	13	99%
2009	4156	0.001087908	4142	14	99%
2010	3433	0.000928908	3420	13	99%
2011	3227	0.000882226	3220	7	100%
2012	3039	0.000830926	3033	6	100%
2013	2826	0.000775167	2821	5	100%
2014	2782	0.000750598	2776	6	100%
2015	2839	0.000767108	2833	6	100%
2016	2817	0.000767847	2810	7	100%
2017	2722	0.000761144	2717	5	100%
2018	2619	0.000744902	2619		100%
2019	2724	0.000784803	2716	8	99%
2020	2502	0.000748972	2492	10	99%
2021	2613	0.000771263	2604	9	99%
2022	2847	0.000841527	2847		100%
2023	2905	0.000877327	2905		100%
2024	3113	0.000935256	3105	8	99%

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