Girl · Latvian, influenced by Maria
Māra
Say it: MAH-rah
Meaning
Name of a Latvian mother goddess of folk songs, widely held to have absorbed the name of the Virgin Mary.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 21,460 babies given this name since 1892
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 3,500 girls
- 460 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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