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Mariane

Girls' name

Variant of Mariana

Mariane has been given to 738 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1959, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Mariane, 2023

1 in 552,000

Mariane over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariane: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Mariana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mariane means

Mariane is a variant of Mariana.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mariane is used in Portuguese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mɐ.ˈɾjɐ.nɨ/ and /ma.ˈɾjɐ̃.ni/ for Mariane.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mariane → Mariana → Marian → Mary → Marie → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Origin, language, and formation

Mariane is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mariana and Marianne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 738 girls were recorded with the name Mariane between 1911 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1959; its best national rank was #2,090 in 1959.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mariane?

Mariane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariane 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marianes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariane was born before 1960 — so the typical Mariane is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
525
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Choose a decade

1950s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (155).

Is Mariane 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (30)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,090
1959

Spellings of Mariane

Mariane is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 24.7% against Mariane's 0.03%.

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 Mariane is used

Across 1910–2025, Mariane was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,168,392 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Mariane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mariane around the world

Where Mariane 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
    1900–2025
    #6,046
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1952–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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

Mariane by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,090
1959
Peak year
1959
30 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
738
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mariane

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

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Sibling names for Mariane

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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