Supersize baby Maria Lorena Marin may only be a couple days old, but she is already causing quite a stir around the globe.

Weighing in at 6.095kg, and born to British mother Maxime Marin, baby Maria is the biggest to be delivered naturally in Spain.

She arrived on Wednesday morning at the Hospital Marina Salud in the Mediterranean city of Denia following a five-hour labour – her mother giving birth without pain relief.

Although being delivered abroad, baby Maria’s eyewatering weight puts her in an elite category – and official NHS data shows that between 2011 and 2012 only 0.2 per cent of babies born in England weighed more than five kilograms.

Earlier this year, a Californian woman gave birth to a child weighing even more than Maria. Jayden Sigler was 6.293kg, when he was delivered by Caesarean section.

His mother, Cynthia Sigler, said it needed a photo of the scale readout to convince her family that the birth weight was not a joke – after medics had previously estimated the baby would only weigh around 4.082kg.

And George King became one of the heaviest babies born naturally in England when he was delivered earlier this year weighing in at 7.002kg.

Last year, a mother in central China gave birth to a 7.030kg baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country’s founding in 1949.

The state-run Tianjin Post said that the 29-year-old mother in Henan province gave birth to the boy by Caesarean section. It said delivery took just 20 minutes and both mother and the baby, named Chun Chun, were doing fine.

Almost six decades earlier, a baby boy weighing 10.205kg was born to Carmelina Fedele in Aversa, Italy.

But they all fall short of the heaviest baby ever born – which tipped the scales at 10.773kg, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. But the baby, born to a mother who had giantism and delivered in Canada in 1879, died 11 hours later.