Maryana

#9,254 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Mariana

Maryana has been given to 598 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #9,254 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Maryana, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maryana: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Mariana

Arabic, Hebrew and Slavic languages

What Maryana means

Maryana belongs to the name family reached through Maryana → Mariana → Marian → Mary → Marie → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maryana is used in English. Its origins include Arabic, Hebrew and Slavic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mariana, Marian, Mary, Marie, Maria and מרים.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 598 girls were recorded with the name Maryana between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,349 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,439 in 2020 to #9,254 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,598 in 2015 to #9,254 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.

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How common is Maryana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,254
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maryana 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maryana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maryanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maryana was born before 2009 — so the typical Maryana is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
593
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Choose a decade

2000s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (229).

Is Maryana 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
+85
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,815
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,656
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.4%
Peak was 2007 (35)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,349
2007

Spellings of Maryana

Maryana is not the most common spelling — Marian is, with 21.9% against Maryana's 0.09%.

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 Maryana is used

Across 1910–2025, Maryana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 565,874 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Maryana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maryana around the world

Where Maryana 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
    2018–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1993–2025
    #6,990
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1974–1974
    #683
    in 1974

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.

Maryana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,254
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,815
Best rank ever
#4,349
2007
Peak year
2007
35 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
598
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Maryana

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

Sibling names for Maryana

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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