girls:
43.4k births since 1888
#641 (89th percentile)
boys:
85 births since 1980
#4501 (2nd percentile)
overall:
43.5k births since 1888
#1180 (85th percentile)
The name Mariana is the #1,180 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 43,462 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 84.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #641 (88.8% percentile) for all time with 43,377 births since 1888. For boys, it ranks #4,501 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 85 births since 1980.
Mariana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for girls and 1980 for boys). Birth data for Mariana is available in 131 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (131 years for girls and 13 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mariana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mariana reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 82.6% percentile (ranked #164) with 1,016 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 1,016 births per million (ranked 82.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mariana ranks #233 for girls (75.5% percentile) with 714 births per million, which is 70.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mariana reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mariana".
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Our model has identified 14 different pronunciations for the name Mariana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 15.9% confident that Mariana is pronounced as mah-ree-AH-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-ree-A-nuh, at 12.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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