Marietta
About 15,055 American babies have been named Marietta since 1880, most of them around 1921. In 2025 it ranked 3,645th. About 6,600 Mariettas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marietta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,055
- Estimated living today
- 6,600
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 389th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,645th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Mariettas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,055 babies given the name since 1880, about 6,600 are alive — 44 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 3,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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
From Italian Marietta..
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mariettas
- Marietta Blau (1894–1970)Austrian nuclear physicist
- Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982)Soviet writer, poet and journalist
- Marietta Robusti (1560–1590)Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (1560? – 1590)
- Marietta Giannakou (1951–2022)Greek politician
- Marietta Alboni (1826–1894)Italian operatic contralto
- Marietta Chudakova (1937–2021)Russian literary critic and writer
People named Marietta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marietta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marietta is most concentrated in Indiana (2.7×), Kentucky (2.5×), Kansas (2.2×), Missouri (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Marietta peaked:
Marietta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Marietta | 780 | 610th |
| Poland girls | Marietta | 633 birth registrations | 137th |
| England and Wales girls | Marietta | 45 | 4,050th |
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.
Marietta: rank by region
In 2025, Marietta was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubelskie | Marietta | 124 | 3 |
| Łódzkie | Marietta | 188 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Marietta | 194 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Marietta | 158 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Marietta | 204 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – 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.
Marietta by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Marietta 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 | Marietta | 48 | 289 |
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 Marietta lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 177 women called Marietta 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 | Marietta | 12 | 0.022 | 2,885 |
| Huelva | Marietta | 5 | 0.018 | 2,070 |
| Palmas, Las | Marietta | 10 | 0.017 | 3,759 |
| Málaga | Marietta | 15 | 0.016 | 2,524 |
| Cádiz | Marietta | 10 | 0.016 | 1,824 |
| Almería | Marietta | 5 | 0.013 | 3,025 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 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
Marietta 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.