The Maravilla surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,669 people carried this name — #6,052 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 52,100 people counted. That is up 51% from 3,747 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Maravilla surname

From Spanish, from maravilla.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Maravilla» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 817 people named Maravilla live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Mendoza.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Mendoza 494
Buenos Aires Province 152
San Juan 70
La Pampa 23
La Rioja 20
Neuquén 20
Río Negro 17
San Luis 11

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Maravilla in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1940s.

35 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Maravilla. The most, 17, date from the 1870s.

Articles, by state

Queensland 6
New South Wales 5
Tasmania 5
Victoria 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Maravilla.

In the public record

People named Maravilla,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States59 records

59 records of the Maravilla name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 49
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 9
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Feliciano T. Maravilla

    Born 1908. Enlisted 1942 at San Francisco, California; auto mechanic from Santa Cruz County.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain)
  2. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Aurelia Maravilla

    Born 1913 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in Salinas, California, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
  3. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Joseph Maravilla

    Born 1922 in Indiana. Enlisted 1945 at Indianapolis; shipping clerk from Lake County.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain)

Showing 3 of 59 records for Maravilla in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

France3 records

3 records of the Maravilla name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Marthe Julienne Maravilla

    Born 1914 in Limoges; died 1990 in Saint-Priest-Taurion (Haute-Vienne).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  2. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Joseph Maravilla

    Born 1907 in Massugas; died 1982 in Libourne (Gironde).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  3. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Philomene Maravilla

    Born 1902 in Massugas (Gironde); died 1986 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

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