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Mariella

#943 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Maria

Mariella has been given to 5,213 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #943 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 274 recorded.

Babies named Mariella, 2025

1 in 12,100

Mariella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariella: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mariella means

Mariella is a diminutive of Maria.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mariella → 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

Mariella is used in English and Italian.

Mariella comes through Italian Mariella.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Mariella is pronounced /ma.riˈɛl.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,213 girls were recorded with the name Mariella between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 274 in 2025; its best national rank was #943 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,258 in 2020 to #943 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,422 in 2015 to #943 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 Mariella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,100
274 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,870
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#943
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,388 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariella 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,388 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariella was born before 2012 — so the typical Mariella is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,885
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (1,605).

Is Mariella 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
+45
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+315
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+479
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.68×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (274)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#943
2025

Spellings of Mariella

Mariella is not the most common spelling — Gabriella is, with 30.6% against Mariella's 1.2%.

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 Mariella is used

Across 2016–2025, Mariella was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 8,005 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 4,000
  2. 2New York1 in 4,167
  3. 3Arizona1 in 5,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 5,263
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 5,882
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 5,882
  7. 7Colorado1 in 6,667
  8. 8Florida1 in 6,667

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.

Mariella around the world

Where Mariella 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
    1996–2025
    #1,110
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2022
    #625
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2007–2007
    #842
    in 2007
  • France
    1947–2025
    #4,729
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Mariella

People whose public names include Mariella, 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.

Mariella in other languages

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

MarieMarielMarietaMarielleMariettaMaria Isabella

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

Mariella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#943
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 315
Best rank ever
#943
2025
Peak year
2025
274 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,213
Count in 2025
274

Names similar to Mariella

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

MarbellaMarvellaMaricellaMaryellaMarcellaMaribellaMarillaMarkellaMarisellaMarellaMarzellaMardellaMarcelleMarielleMaribethMarleighMarabellaMarigoldMaricruzMarybethMariselaMaryannaMargarettMaryrose

Names with a curve like Mariella

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

QuincyMaddieKeziahElinaLeenaViviannaEmiSoleilPromiseIsadoraKeilyGiulia

Sibling names for Mariella

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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