girls:
11.3k births since 1958
#1481 (74th percentile)
boys:
8 births since 1992
#4578 (0th percentile)
overall:
11.3k births since 1958
#2472 (68th percentile)
The name Mariela is the #2,472 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,308 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 68.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,481 (74.1% percentile) for all time with 11,300 births since 1958. For boys, it ranks #4,578 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 8 births since 1992.
Mariela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for girls and 1992 for boys). Birth data for Mariela is available in 64 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023 (64 years for girls and 1 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 Mariela has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mariela reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 51.3% percentile (ranked #419) with 261 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 261 births per million (ranked 51.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mariela ranks #788 for girls (16.8% percentile) with 94 births per million, which is 35.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mariela reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #767) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mariela".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Mariela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Mariela is pronounced as mah-ree-EH-luh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAH-ree-EH-luh, at 16.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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