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Marciana

#16,401 in 2025Girls' name

Of or pertaining to Mārcus or Mārcius, Marcian, through Mārciāna

Marciana has been given to 290 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #16,401 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Marciana, 2025

1 in 663,000

Marciana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marciana: meaning, origin, and history

Of or pertaining to Mārcus or Mārcius, Marcian, through Mārciāna

Latin, Portuguese and Spanish

What Marciana means

Marciana belongs to the name family reached through Marciana → Mārciāna. Its meaning is “of or pertaining to Mārcus or Mārcius, Marcian”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Portuguese and Spanish Marciana and their etymon Latin Mārciāna, feminine of Mārciānus.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Marciana (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Marciana is used in English. Its origins include Latin, Portuguese and Spanish.

Marciana comes through pt,es Marciana and Latin Mārciāna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mārciāna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 290 girls were recorded with the name Marciana between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2009; its best national rank was #3,190 in 1926.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,605 in 2015 to #16,401 in 2025.

How common is Marciana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,401
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marciana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marciana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marcianas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marciana was born before 2005 — so the typical Marciana is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
246
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Choose a decade

2010s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Marciana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−6,415
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,796
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 2009 (15)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,190
1926

Spellings of Marciana

Marciana is not the most common spelling — Marian is, with 26.2% against Marciana's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marciana is used

Across 1910–2025, Marciana was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,046,820 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marciana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marciana around the world

Where Marciana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2011–2012
    #7,703
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Marciana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,401
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,190
1926
Peak year
2009
15 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
290
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Marciana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Marciana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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