Marya is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Marya in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Marya in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Marya by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Marya ranks at #6,004. That means there are 6,003 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Marya.
While Marya is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1965, the name Marya reached its highest popularity with #1,551 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Marya. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Marya.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 10 babies were born with the name Marya. This puts the name in rank 8,408 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 14,823,190 newborns was named Marya that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Marya has been and remains marvelously unusual!
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Marya in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 208 women and girls named Marya, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 208 women and girls named Marya live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan and New York. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Marya. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Marya lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Marya and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Marya relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 105,021 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Marya.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Marya is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Marya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marya, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marya
Marya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
R
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
R
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marya sounds like this:
