Mariette

Girls' name

Diminutive of Marie

Mariette has been given to 1,052 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1950, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Mariette, 2023

1 in 474,000

Mariette over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Marie

French

What Mariette means

Mariette is a diminutive of Marie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mariette is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ma.ʁjɛt/ for Mariette.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Mariette. By surface analysis, Marie /Mary + -ette. Piecewise doublet of Marietta.

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Origin, language, and formation

Mariette is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Mariette comes through French Mariette.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Mariette is pronounced /ma.ʁjɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,052 girls were recorded with the name Mariette between 1887 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1950; its best national rank was #1,246 in 1887.

How common is Mariette?

Mariette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 229,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 328,234 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mariette 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariette was born before 1951 — so the typical Mariette is around 74 today.

Median birth year: 1951; About 74 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 15.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 4.9%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 566; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 15.1% of all recorded uses (159).

Is Mariette 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1950 (25)
Years since peak: 75; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,246; 1887

Spellings of Mariette

Mariette is not the most common spelling — Marietta is, with 33.1% against Mariette's 2.3%.

Marietta33.1%15,055
Harriette19.2%8,740
Arlette17.8%8,109
Marielle9.9%4,530
Maryetta2.5%1,147
Arnette2.3%1,055
Mariette2.3%1,052
Carlette2.2%1,019

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 Mariette is used

Across 1910–2025, Mariette was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 742,603 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Maine1 in 100,000
2Illinois1 in —
3Massachusetts1 in —

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. Mariette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mariette around the world

Where Mariette 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
1996–2017
#5,765
in 2017
France
1900–2025
#3,604
in 2025
South Australia
1946–2009
#535
in 2009

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.

Mariette 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: —
Best rank ever: #1,246; 1887
Peak year: 1950; 25 that year
First recorded: 1887
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 1,052
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Mariette

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

Sibling names for Mariette

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

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For a brother

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