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Mariela

#1,232 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Maria

Mariela has been given to 11,668 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #1,232 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 524 recorded.

Babies named Mariela, 2025

1 in 18,100

Mariela over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariela: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Maria

Spanish

What Mariela means

Mariela is a diminutive of Maria.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mariela → Maria → 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

Mariela is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and María.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Mariela is pronounced /maˈɾjela/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,660 girls were recorded with the name Mariela between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 524 in 1992; its best national rank was #471 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,530 in 2020 to #1,232 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,560 in 2015 to #1,232 in 2025.

In the United States, 8 boys were recorded with the name Mariela between 1992 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1992; its best national rank was #6,465 in 1992.

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 Mariela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,100
183 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,780
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,232
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,558 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariela 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,558 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marielas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariela was born before 2001 — so the typical Mariela is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,660
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (3,689).

Is Mariela 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
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+298
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+328
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.9%
Peak was 1992 (524)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#471
1992

Spellings of Mariela

Mariela is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 28.1% against Mariela's 0.58%.

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 Mariela is used

Across 2016–2025, Mariela was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 10,750 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

219 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 5,263
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,556
  3. 3California1 in 6,667
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 7,143
  5. 5Florida1 in 9,091
  6. 6Georgia1 in 14,286
  7. 7New York1 in 16,667
  8. 8Virginia1 in 16,667

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.

Mariela around the world

Where Mariela 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
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2025
    #6,844
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mariela

People whose public names include Mariela, 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.

Mariela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,232
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 298
Best rank ever
#471
1992
Peak year
1992
524 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,660
Count in 2025
183

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,465
1992
Peak year
1992
8 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mariela

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

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Names with a curve like Mariela

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

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Sibling names for Mariela

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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