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Marianna

Marianna is a girl's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 678th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 872nd. About 15,000 Mariannas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Marianna

By the numbers

Total US births
18,444
Estimated living today
15,000
Median age today
22
Peak year
2006
Best rank
678th
Rank in 2025
872nd
First recorded
1883

How old the living Mariannas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 18,444 babies given the name since 1883, about 15,000 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 5,800 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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 Italian

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Mariannas

People named Marianna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Marianna is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Marianna is most concentrated in Arizona (2.2×), New York (2.0×), New Mexico (1.8×), California (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular girls’ names the year Marianna peaked:

All the names of 2006

Marianna elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy girls Marianna 11,438
Poland girls Marianna 9,408 birth registrations 55th
France girls Marianna 1,205 379th
England and Wales girls Marianna 639 1,168th
Switzerland girls Marianna 118 409th
Ireland girls Marianna 74 546th
Scotland girls Marianna 29 508th
Belgium girls Marianna 20 1,357th
Northern Ireland girls Marianna 8 370th
Norway girls Marianna 5 454th

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.

Marianna: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Marianna 81 0.007% 383rd
French girls Switzerland Marianna 25 0.006% 359th
Italian girls Switzerland Marianna 11 0.017% 104th
Romansh girls Switzerland Marianna 1 0.027% 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, Marianna is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 34 of them.

Marianna: rank by region

In 2023, Marianna was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Marianna 8 1

In 2025, Marianna was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Marianna 51 45
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Marianna 53 27
Lubelskie Marianna 56 20
Lubuskie Marianna 71 7
Łódzkie Marianna 54 28
Małopolskie Marianna 68 40
Mazowieckie Marianna 53 94
Opolskie Marianna 123 2
Podkarpackie Marianna 83 10
Podlaskie Marianna 68 11
Pomorskie Marianna 50 42
Śląskie Marianna 77 28
Świętokrzyskie Marianna 55 10
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Marianna 42 26
Wielkopolskie Marianna 45 79
Zachodniopomorskie Marianna 56 17

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – 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.

Marianna by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 9 499th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Marianna 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 Marianna 1,108 3,933
the Netherlands girls Marianna 1,493 2,668
the Netherlands boys Marianna 29

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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 Marianna lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 830 women called Marianna 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
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Marianna 51 0.092 998
Girona Marianna 37 0.089 882
Alicante/Alacant Marianna 81 0.079 962
Balears, Illes Marianna 49 0.078 923
Tarragona Marianna 27 0.062 1,149
Barcelona Marianna 180 0.059 1,057

Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Marianna against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.