Mariana
The girl's name Mariana has been in the national records since 1888, with 45,972 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 260th. About 44,000 Marianas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mariana boys named Mariana
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 45,972
- Estimated living today
- 44,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 165th
- Rank in 2025
- 260th
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 45,887 / 85
How old the living Marianas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 45,972 babies given the name since 1888, about 44,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 21,000 of them are children and 550 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin, from Aramaic, Hebrew
Latinized form of Marian, ultimately from Mary or Mary + Ann. It is also the feminine form of Latin Mariānus, derivative of Marius, but these rather rare Roman names have been completely intertwined with Maria in the Christian era.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marianas
- Mariana of Austria (1634–1696)Queen consort of Spain
- Mariana Victoria of Spain (1718–1781)Infanta of Spain by birth, later regent of Portugal (lived 1718-1781)
- Mariana Pajón (born 1991)Colombian cyclist
- Mariana Ximenes (born 1981)Brazilian actress
- Mariana Mazzucato (born 1968)Italian-American economist, professor (University College London)
- Mariana Duque (born 1989)Colombian tennis player
- Mariana Popova (born 1978)Bulgarian singer
- Mariana Avitia (born 1993)Mexican archer
People named Mariana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mariana is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mariana is most concentrated in Arizona (3.3×), Texas (2.6×), California (2.5×), New Mexico (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular girls’ names the year Mariana peaked:
Mariana elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal girls | Mariana | 5,440 name registrations | 6th |
| France girls | Mariana | 2,265 | 721st |
| England and Wales girls | Mariana | 814 | 871st |
| Italy girls | Mariana | 775 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Mariana | 725 | 166th |
| Norway girls | Mariana | 239 | 364th |
| Belgium girls | Mariana | 159 | 646th |
| Poland girls | Mariana | 78 birth registrations | 322nd |
| Ireland girls | Mariana | 56 | 448th |
| Scotland girls | Mariana | 29 | 580th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mariana: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Mariana | 347 | 0.028% | 214th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mariana | 356 | 0.082% | 66th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Mariana | 18 | 0.028% | 83rd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Mariana | 4 | 0.108% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mariana is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.11% of children were given it – 75 of them.
Mariana: rank by region
In 2025, Mariana was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mariana | 836 | 5 |
In 2023, Mariana was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Mariana | 8 | 1 |
In 2024, Mariana was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Mariana | 209 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Mariana | 249 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Mariana | 192 | 4 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mariana among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Mariana | 152 | 609 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mariana lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 23,370 women called Mariana were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaén | Mariana | 656 | 2.101 | 100 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Mariana | 501 | 1.588 | 115 |
| Huelva | Mariana | 417 | 1.536 | 116 |
| Almería | Mariana | 529 | 1.402 | 114 |
| Segovia | Mariana | 107 | 1.357 | 148 |
| Murcia | Mariana | 1,049 | 1.324 | 132 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mariana against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.