girls:
6.9k births since 1914
#1972 (66th percentile)
boys:
116 births since 1979
#4470 (2nd percentile)
overall:
7.1k births since 1914
#3209 (59th percentile)
The name Mariel is the #3,209 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,057 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 58.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,972 (65.5% percentile) for all time with 6,941 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,470 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 116 births since 1979.
Mariel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Mariel is available in 108 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (108 years for girls and 17 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 Mariel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mariel reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 30.1% percentile (ranked #601) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 134 births per million (ranked 30.1% percentile). Despite a peak around 2018, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Mariel ranks #769 for girls (18.8% percentile) with 105 births per million, which is 78.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mariel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #747) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mariel".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Mariel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.8% confident that Mariel is pronounced as MEH-ree-EHL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-ree-ehl, at 24.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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