Marietta

girls:

15k births since 1880

#1246 (78th percentile)

overall:

15k births since 1880

#2144 (72nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Marietta is the #2,144 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,982 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 72.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,246 (78.2% percentile) for all time with 14,982 births since 1880.

Marietta has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880

For girls, Marietta reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 40.9% percentile (ranked #358) with 231 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 244 births per million (ranked 38.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Marietta ranks #921 for girls (2.7% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marietta".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
14,982
Peak Births
295
Peak Year
1921
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
40.9%
Current Percentile
2.7%
Peak Rank
#358
Current Rank
#921
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Marietta

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Marietta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 31.5% confident that Marietta is pronounced as MEH-ree-EH-tuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-ree-EH-tuh, at 31.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.

MEH-ree-EH-tuh (4 syllables)
Verified
31.5% confidence
M EH1 R IY0 EH1 T AH0
meh-ree-EH-tuh (4 syllables)
Verified
31.5% confidence
M EH0 R IY0 EH1 T AH0
ma-ree-EH-tuh (4 syllables)
13.7% confidence
M AE0 R IY0 EH1 T AH0
muh-REE-eh-tuh (4 syllables)
8.2% confidence
M AH0 R IY1 EH0 T AH0
mah-REE-eh-tuh (4 syllables)
6.8% confidence
M AA0 R IY1 EH0 T AH0
meh-REE-eh-tuh (4 syllables)
5.5% confidence
M EH0 R IY1 EH0 T AH0
mah-ree-EH-tuh (4 syllables)
2.7% confidence
M AA0 R IY0 EH1 T AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M EH1 R IY0 EH1 T AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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