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Mariaelena

#5,843 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Mariaelena has been given to 2,030 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #5,843 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Mariaelena, 2025

1 in 158,000

Mariaelena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariaelena: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mariaelena means

Mariaelena is a given name.

The naming story behind Mariaelena

Wikidata records Mariaelena as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q114592277, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,030 girls were recorded with the name Mariaelena between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,141 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,811 in 2020 to #5,843 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,300 in 2015 to #5,843 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Mariaelena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,843
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariaelena 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariaelena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariaelenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariaelena was born before 1990 — so the typical Mariaelena is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,920
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (426).

Is Mariaelena 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
+3,490
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,968
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,457
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.2%
Peak was 1998 (58)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,141
1965

Spellings of Mariaelena

Mariaelena is the most-used spelling, taking 49.7% of the 4,085 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Mariaelena is used

Across 1910–2025, Mariaelena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 53,481 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 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. Mariaelena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mariaelena around the world

Where Mariaelena 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.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1965–2018
    #6,024
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1967–1983
    #686
    in 1983

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mariaelena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,843
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,968
Best rank ever
#2,141
1965
Peak year
1998
58 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,030
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Mariaelena

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

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Names with a curve like Mariaelena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mariaelena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mariaelena

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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