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Mariano

#1,087 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Mariano has been given to 10,077 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #1,087 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 215 recorded.

Babies named Mariano, 2025

1 in 16,700

Mariano over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariano: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Spanish and Latin

What Mariano means

Mariano belongs to the name family reached through Mariano → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mariano is used in Cebuano, Italian, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish and Latin.

Mariano comes through Spanish Mariano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Mariano is pronounced /maˈrja.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,077 boys were recorded with the name Mariano between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 215 in 2022; its best national rank was #733 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,093 in 2020 to #1,087 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,156 in 2015 to #1,087 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mariano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,700
198 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,630
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,087
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,607 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariano sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,607 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marianos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariano was born before 1995 — so the typical Mariano is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,302
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (1,686).

Is Mariano 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
+65
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+69
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.1%
Peak was 2022 (215)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#733
1912

Spellings of Mariano

Mariano is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 54.7% against Mariano's 3.6%.

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 Mariano is used

Across 2016–2025, Mariano was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,852 boys, against 1 in 9,062 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

154 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,852
  2. 2Texas1 in 4,348
  3. 3Arizona1 in 5,263
  4. 4California1 in 5,556
  5. 5Florida1 in 7,143
  6. 6Colorado1 in 8,333
  7. 7Michigan1 in 12,500
  8. 8Illinois1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Mariano around the world

Where Mariano 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
    2022–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,802
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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

Notable people named Mariano

People whose public names include Mariano, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mariano in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mariano. Linked forms have their own page here.

Marià

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mariano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,087
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6
Best rank ever
#733
1912
Peak year
2022
215 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,077
Count in 2025
198

Names similar to Mariano

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

MarcianoMarquesMarceloMarquezMarshalMarcellMarkellMarquiseMarquisMarkusMarcelloMarquelMartellMarleyMarcelMarlinMarkelMarcellusMarcialMartezMarquanMarcelinoMarloweLuciano

Names with a curve like Mariano

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

MauroLucioSimeonZackEliotMarcelinoVicentePatricioGonzaloIshmaelValentinSalomon

Sibling names for Mariano

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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