Mariel

What Mariel means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #893 vs #5,927 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mariel?

US: Rising: up from #1839 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #5730 in 2015, #5927 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 298 girls got the name (#893 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

• About 1 in 5,394 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 84,427 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 AZ (0.85 per 1,000 girls), TX (0.63 per 1,000 girls), NV (0.54 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Mariel is #893 in the US and #5927 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.3% of US babies named Mariel were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Marlie153 US · 63 E&W
• Marielle121 US
• Marely38 US
• Muriel32 US
• Mareli20 US
• Marilu16 US
• Marilee13 US
• Marilla13 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 Mariel

Girls

• Margaret#112“pearl”^*
• Valerie#127Same root as Valeria, meaning “to be healthy, to be strong”^*
• Sylvia#300“forest”^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Maria#87Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 10,148 babies; 2,887 in 2025
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*

For a brother

• Peter#187“stone, rock”^*
• George#126“farmer, earth worker”^*
• Thomas#34“twin”^*
• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• Malcolm#272Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Louis#249“loud; famous + battle”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mariel’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.