Maria
506
Babies in 2024
-28%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 853
-16%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Maria
Maria is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #91 for girls born in 2024 with 506 babies registered in England & Wales.
Maria reached its peak in 2016, when 853 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #69 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 506 represents 59% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 17,304 girls have been officially registered with the name Maria in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 7,918 girls were registered with the name, starting from 707 in 2014 and ending at 506 in 2024.