Merija

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Merija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 38K(measured from records)

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

49 people

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Merija 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.

Where Merija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia491 in 38K49——
IN India———Merija5
EE Estonia——listed——
IS Iceland——listed——

49 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; the is-skra-nofn register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Merija is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Latvian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States

    Also written Mērija

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Merija 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Merija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—8—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—8#5,099
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026——
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Merija a male or female name?
Merija 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.
In which country does Merija have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 49 people named Merija, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Merija most common?
Merija is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 38 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Merija?
In Latvia, the national register counted 49 people named Merija, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.

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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, “Merija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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