Maarja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Mary (biblical character)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maarja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 119K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 340K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
47 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Mary (biblical character)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maarja counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
47 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maarja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, anyway, anyhow, anyhoo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maarja Unduskb. 1959EEEstonian poet and leatherworker (born 1959)
- Maarja Kruusmaab. 1970EEEstonian roboticist (born 1970)
- Maarja Kangrob. 1973EEEstonian writer (born 1973)
- Maarja Vainob. 1976EEEstonian literary scholar (born 1976)
- Maarja Jakobsonb. 1977EEEstonian actress (born 1977)
- Maarja-Liis Ilusb. 1980EEEstonian singer (born 1980)
- Marya Roxxb. 1986EEnot in their usual nameEstonian recording artist and singer (born 1986)
- Maarja Pärtnab. 1986EEEstonian writer and journalist (born 1986)
- Maarja Saulepb. 1991EEEstonian association football player (born 1991)
- Maarja Johanna Mägib. 1997EEEstonian actress (born 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 265 | #1,511 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30 | #19,300 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 22 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maarja mean, and where does it come from?
- Mary (biblical character) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Maarja a male or female name?
- Maarja is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Maarja?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages; Marika and Maarika are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Maarja have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 47 people named Maarja, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maarja most common?
- Maarja is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 119 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maarja?
- In Finland, the national register counted 47 people named Maarja, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Maarja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maarjaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maarja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.