Mariana

What Mariana means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Mariana yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #260 vs #1,512 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mariana?

US: Rising: up from #296 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #871 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 2,062 girls got the name (#165 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 1,348 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 12,664 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (3.26 per 1,000 girls), AZ (2.13 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.93 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Mariana is #260 in the US and #1512 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Mariana were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Marianna308 US · 15 E&W
• Marianny15 US
• Mariani12 US
• Marionna8 US
• Mariany6 US
• Myriana5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Mariana

Girls

• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Lilian#560possibly “lily”^*
• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Valeria#162“to be healthy, to be strong”^*
• Valery#743Editor’s note Up from #1,209 in 2015 to #743 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Uriel#445“God is my light”^*
• Jonas#599“dove”^*
• Elisha#788Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Elisha in 2025 were boys
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Misael#733Editor’s note 359 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Israel#315possibly “kingdom/land of Israel”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mariana’s. Rank is US 2025.