# Marija (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marija/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 519 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 519 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 118, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 21 | 6,488 |
| 2009 | 14 | 8,737 |
| 2010 | 20 | 6,557 |
| 2011 | 7 | 14,284 |
| 2012 | 5 | 18,592 |
| 2013 | 7 | 14,114 |
| 2014 | 7 | 14,048 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,183 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,471 |
| 2017 | 5 | 17,515 |
| 2018 | 9 | 11,119 |
| 2019 | 8 | 12,044 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,496 |
| 2022 | 6 | 14,684 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,819 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2,338 |
| 2013 | 12 | 2,176 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## People named Marija

- Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer
- Marija Jurić Zagorka, Croatian journalist, novelist, dramatist (1873–1957)
- Marija Petković, Croatian Catholic nun, founder of the Catholic Congregation of the Daughters of Mercy (189
- Marija Ujević-Galetović, Croatian sculptor (1933–2023)
- Marija Bursać, First woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia (1921–1943)
- Marija Kohn, Croatian actress (1934-2018)
- Marija Vučković, Croatian politician
- Marija Vrsaljko, Croatian basketball player (born 1989)
- Marija Manolowa, Bulgarian biathlete
- Marija Vrajić, Croatian female distance runner
- Maria Vierdag, Dutch swimmer (1905-2005)
- Ignjat Đurđević, Croatian Benedictine poet, historian, and theologian (1675-1737)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.