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Marjan

#8,166 in 2025Girls' name

Blend of Marie and An

Marjan has been given to 269 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #8,166 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Marjan, 2025

1 in 255,000

Marjan over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marjan: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Marie and An

Latin

What Marjan means

Marjan is a blend of Marie and An.

Origin, language, and formation

Marjan is used in Albanian, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marie, An and Marius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Marjan is pronounced /mârjan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 269 girls were recorded with the name Marjan between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,042 in 1949.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,993 in 2020 to #8,166 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 Marjan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,166
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marjan 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marjan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marjans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marjan was born before 2000 — so the typical Marjan is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
263
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Choose a decade

2020s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Marjan 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
+2,627
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,827
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
81.3%
Peak was 2022 (16)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,042
1949

Spellings of Marjan

Marjan is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 35.6% against Marjan's 0.02%.

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 Marjan is used

Across 1910–2025, Marjan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 941,928 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Marjan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marjan around the world

Where Marjan 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2025–2025
    #6,156
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1955–1955
    #502
    in 1955

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

Marjan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,166
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,827
Best rank ever
#5,042
1949
Peak year
2022
16 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
269
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Marjan

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

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Sibling names for Marjan

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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