Is Maria a male or female name?
Maria is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 100%, based on 1,971,574 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 100%
- Sample size
- 1,971,574
- Confidence
- high
Maria by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poland PL | female | 100% | 567,499 | pesel |
| United States US | female | 99% | 567,113 | ssa |
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 543,083 | ine |
| France FR | female | 100% | 144,225 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | female | 100% | 73,705 | bfs |
| England and Wales GB | female | 100% | 21,123 | ons |
| Norway NO | female | 100% | 20,304 | ssb |
| Canada CA | female | 100% | 14,194 | statcan |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 10,278 | statat |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 10,050 | cso |
Attested in 73 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Maria over time
In the United States, 100% of the babies named Maria in the 1880s were girls, against 99.8% in the 2020s. In France, 99.9% of the babies named Maria in the 1900s were girls, against 100% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 100% | 1,732 | — | |
| 1890s | 100% | 2,866 | — | |
| 1900s | 100% | 4,174 | 100% | 36,540 |
| 1910s | 99% | 11,430 | 100% | 21,790 |
| 1920s | 99% | 22,899 | 100% | 18,595 |
| 1930s | 98% | 20,985 | 100% | 9,635 |
| 1940s | 99% | 35,868 | 100% | 3,470 |
| 1950s | 99% | 62,798 | 100% | 5,110 |
| 1960s | 100% | 89,263 | 100% | 17,620 |
| 1970s | 99% | 76,919 | 100% | 14,645 |
| 1980s | 99% | 66,671 | 100% | 2,075 |
| 1990s | 99% | 71,421 | 100% | 1,435 |
| 2000s | 100% | 57,152 | 100% | 2,950 |
| 2010s | 100% | 28,987 | 100% | 5,695 |
| 2020s | 100% | 13,948 | 100% | 4,665 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Maria with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Maria&country=PL" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Maria
Is Maria a male or female name?
Maria is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 100%, based on 1,971,574 observations.
Why can the result for Maria change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Maria identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.