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Marieta

Girls' name

Diminutive of Maria

Marieta has been given to 451 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1930, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Marieta, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marieta: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marieta means

Marieta is a diminutive of Maria.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marieta is used in Romanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Greek and Spanish (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 451 girls were recorded with the name Marieta between 1898 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1930; its best national rank was #1,625 in 1898.

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 Marieta?

Marieta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marieta 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marieta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marietas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marieta was born before 1938 — so the typical Marieta is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
128
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Choose a decade

1930s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Marieta 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (16)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,625
1898

Spellings of Marieta

Marieta is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 36.6% against Marieta'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.

Marieta around the world

Where Marieta 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
    2018–2020
    #4,535
    in 2020
  • France
    1983–2020
    #6,791
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

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

Marieta 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
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Best rank ever
#1,625
1898
Peak year
1930
16 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
451
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marieta

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

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Sibling names for Marieta

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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