Marianna

What Marianna means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #872 vs #1,892 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Marianna?

US: Steady: #852 in 2015, #872 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1362 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 419 girls got the name (#678 that year). First in the US records in 1883.

How common

• About 1 in 5,218 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 16,885 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 NM (1.28 per 1,000 girls), MS (0.56 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.54 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Marianna is #872 in the US and #1892 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 Marianna were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mariana1,192 US · 20 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 Marianna

Girls

• Isabela#664Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1982, with 6 babies
• Amaya#180“the end”^*
• Anahi#482Spanish, meaning “cockspur coral tree (Erythrina crista-galli)”^*
• Bella#136Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Emiliana#788Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1982, with 7 babies

For a brother

• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*
• Angelo#304Editor’s note Down from #299 in 2015 to #304 in 2025 in the US
• Diego#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #444 in 2025
• Giovanni#123Same root as John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Alessandro#497Italian form of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US

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