Baby name
Maris
/MAH · ris/
Meaning
“Star of the sea”
From Latin stella maris meaning star of the sea, a Marian epithet; also a Latvian feminine name meaning the sea itself.
How it ages.
Clean and short; works well internationally and ages with quiet confidence.
The cultural moment.
Established in Latvia for generations; occasional literary-influenced use in the US since the 1990s.