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Mariella

The girl's name Mariella has been in the national records since 1914, with 5,213 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 943rd. About 4,900 Mariellas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Mariella

By the numbers

Total US births
5,213
Estimated living today
4,900
Median age today
12
Peak year
2025
Best rank
943rd
Rank in 2025
943rd
First recorded
1914

How old the living Mariellas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,213 babies given the name since 1914, about 4,900 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 3,200 of them are children and 120 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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

Borrowed from Italian Mariella.

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

Notable Mariellas

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

Where Mariella is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Mariella is most concentrated in Arizona (2.4×), Florida (2.3×), New York (2.2×), New Jersey (2.0×).

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

Names of 2025

The most popular girls’ names the year Mariella peaked:

All the names of 2025

Mariella elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Mariella 799 790th
France girls Mariella 735 1,261st
Italy girls Mariella 357
Switzerland girls Mariella 127 520th
Scotland girls Mariella 14 675th
Belgium girls Mariella 13 1,052nd
Poland girls Mariella 4 birth registrations 711th
Ireland girls Mariella 3 842nd

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.

Mariella: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Mariella 115 0.009% 454th
French girls Switzerland Mariella 9 0.002% 545th
Italian girls Switzerland Mariella 2 0.003% 200th
Romansh girls Switzerland Mariella 1 0.027% 7th

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, Mariella is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 31 of them.

Mariella by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 110 136th

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

Mariella 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 Mariella 280 1,148

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,148 who carry it, 280 go by it.

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 Mariella lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 225 women called Mariella 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 Mariella 14 0.025 2,578
Palmas, Las Mariella 13 0.022 3,077
Balears, Illes Mariella 11 0.018 2,727
Cádiz Mariella 11 0.017 1,730
Toledo Mariella 6 0.016 2,323
Girona Mariella 5 0.012 3,235

Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 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

Mariella 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.