Maro
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Maro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a short form of the medieval personal name Ademaro, Adimaro, derived from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements adal ‘noble’ -I- mari, meri ‘famous’.
- GEGeorgia1 in 2.6Kas მარო(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 8K
- HRCroatia1 in 8.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maro itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
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)
from a short form of the medieval personal name Ademaro, Adimaro, derived from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements adal ‘noble’ -I- mari, meri ‘famous’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Maro | 4 |
| GE Georgia | #210 | 1,550as მარო | 1 in 2.6K | 1.6K | Maro | 17 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Maro | 3 |
| US United States | — | 715 | 1 in 465K | 574 | Maro | 49 |
| HR Croatia | — | 508 | 1 in 8.3K | 1.1K | — | — |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Maro | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | #943 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Maro | 22 |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Maro is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, from a pet form of the personal names Mark (see Mark) or Mdrton (see Martin).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In aia, a species of tree, paper mulberry; beaten cloth of the maro (the bark was soaked in water an then beaten out, and later painted in gay colors and used as a sling to carry a child, or as a loincloth); a loincloth
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Māori, a sort of kilt or apron worn by males and females; material (moss, lichen, etc.) used by a woman at certain periods; to put on, as a _maro_
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In rar, a waist girdle, the ancient loincloth or waist wrap; various kinds were used in ancient days
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of marar
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)
- Maro Ajemianb. 1921USpianist (1921–1978)
- Maro Kontoub. 1934GRGreek actress (1934–2026)
- Maro Litrab. 1970GRGreek singer
- Maro Naitōb. 1970JPJapanese author and illustrator
- Maro Balićb. 1971HRCroatian water polo player
- Maro Engelb. 1985DEGerman racing driver
- Maro Drobnićb. 1986HRCroatian actor
- Maro Jokovićb. 1987HRCroatian water polo player
- Marob. 1994PTPortuguese singer (1994-)
- Maro Itojeb. 1994GBEnglish rugby union player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.1K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 508 | #752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 375 | #15,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 340 | #15,926 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Maro mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of the medieval personal name Ademaro, Adimaro, derived from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements adal ‘noble’ -I- mari, meri ‘famous’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Maro a male or female name?
- Maro is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How common is the name Maro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 715 people named Maro in 2020, about 1 in 465 thousand residents.
- How common is Maro compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Maro is the 210th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Maro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Maro in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maro.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maroThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Maro” — the 210th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.