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Marielle

#1,699 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Marie

Marielle has been given to 4,530 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #1,699 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 158 recorded.

Babies named Marielle, 2025

1 in 27,400

Marielle over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marielle: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Marie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marielle means

Marielle is a diminutive of Marie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marielle → Marie → 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

Marielle is used in English, Cebuano and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Marielle is pronounced /ma.ʁjɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,530 girls were recorded with the name Marielle between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,373 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,766 in 2020 to #1,699 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,821 in 2015 to #1,699 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 Marielle?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,400
121 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,699
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,992 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marielle 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,992 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marielle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marielles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marielle was born before 2003 — so the typical Marielle is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,504
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 24.1% of all recorded uses (1,092).

Is Marielle 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
+50
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+67
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+122
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.6%
Peak was 2016 (158)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,373
1995

Spellings of Marielle

Marielle is not the most common spelling — Danielle is, with 47.3% against Marielle'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 Marielle is used

Across 2016–2025, Marielle was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 17,795 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 7,143
  2. 2New York1 in 7,692
  3. 3Maryland1 in 14,286
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 16,667
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 20,000

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.

Marielle around the world

Where Marielle 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
    1996–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2014–2014
    #876
    in 2014
  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,845
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #424
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, 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 Marielle

People whose public names include Marielle, 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.

Marielle in other languages

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

MarielMariellaMariette

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

Marielle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,699
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 67
Best rank ever
#1,373
1995
Peak year
2016
158 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,530
Count in 2025
121

Names similar to Marielle

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

MarcelleMarybelleMaribelleMarcilleMardelleMarchelleMarabelleMarvelleMariellaMaribethMarleighMarshelleMarigoldMaricruzMaryannaMarbellaMaryroseMarkaylaMarykateMarylynnMarylinMarloweMarybethMarisela

Names with a curve like Marielle

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

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Sibling names for Marielle

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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