Mari-Liis
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Mari-Liis is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Blend of Mari and Liis. Cognate with German Marlies and Finnish Marja-Liisa.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 660(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 117K
- FIFinland1 in 293K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 664 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mariliis in AT Austria.
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)Blend of Mari and Liis. Cognate with German Marlies and Finnish Marja-Liisa.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mari-Liis 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #93 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 664 | 1.2K | Mari-Liis | 55 |
| FI Finland | — | 19 | 1 in 293K | 148 | Mari-Liis | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 6.4M | — | Mari-Liis | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Mari-Liis | 17 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 993K | — | Mariliis | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 10 | Mari-Liis | 7 |
| IS Iceland | — | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
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: the ee-stat-nimed register; 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); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mari-Liis Külab. 1924EEnot in their usual nameEstonian scenographer (1924-2022)
- Mari-Liis Basovskayab. 1977EEnot in their usual nameEstonian film director (born 1977)
- Mari-Liis Mõttusb. 1997EEnot in their usual nameEstonian road racing cyclist (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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mari-Liis mean, and where does it come from?
- Blend of Mari and Liis. Cognate with German Marlies and Finnish Marja-Liisa. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Mari-Liis a male or female name?
- Mari-Liis is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Estonia (Statistics Estonia) and Finland (DVV).
- Which countries have the most people named Mari-Liis?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Mari-Liis in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Mari-Liis. After it come Finland, Germany, Australia and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mari-Liis?
- In Finland, the national register counted 19 people named Mari-Liis, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.
- How common is Mari-Liis compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Mari-Liis is the 93rd most common given name of 9,600 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mari-liisThe 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, “Mari-Liis” — the 93rd most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.