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Marra

Girl · MAR-a · Hebrew

Marra is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “bitter”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Marra mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Mara

“bitter”

In the Book of Ruth, the grieving Naomi asks to be called Mara instead of Naomi.

Say it
MAR-a

Meaning borrowed from Mara. More on Wiktionary.

Is Marra a girl's or a boy's name?

Marra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Marra in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Marra, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1989, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1963.

Half of all the girls named Marra in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 522 girls in the US were given Marra or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #571, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.

1963Busiest: 19 in 19892025
Marra in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20246#13,472
20230–
20220–
20215#15,246
20207#12,137
201913#8,134
20180–
20170–
20167#12,871
20150–
20147#13,063
20139#10,995
20128#12,193
20110–
20106#14,953
20097#13,698
200810#10,802
20079#11,626
200616#7,480
20058#11,828
200415#7,386
200313#7,993
20029#10,240
20017#12,049
200012#8,020
19999#9,472
19988#10,116
19979#9,012
199613#6,718
19958#9,548
19948#9,580
19938#9,552
19928#9,483
199114#6,247
19907#10,187
198919#4,664
19888#8,386
19870–
19868#7,745
19850–
19840–
19830–
19825#10,514
198110#6,321
19800–
19790–
19787#7,647
19770–
19765#9,282
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19705#7,994
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19635#6,591

Names like Marra

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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