Mariana
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a female given name, equivalent to English Marian, Mariana, or Marianne
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾjana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mariana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 34th most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 202(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 358
- BRBrazil1 in 469
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mariana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #409 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 398 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
451,762 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marijana in SE Sweden, DK Denmark, Marianna in PL Poland and Марианна in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Marian, Mariana, or Marianne
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mariana is read(measured from records)
Mariana is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish58%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mariana in Spanish.
- Portuguese23%
a female given name, equivalent to English Marian, Mariana, or Marianne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.2%
Trench, Pacific; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mariana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #108 | 451,762 | 1 in 469 | 452K | Mariana | 249 |
| AR Argentina | #125 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 358 | 2.1K | Mariana | 178 |
| PL Poland | #107 | 106,305as Marianna | 1 in 360 | 106K | Marianna | 114 |
| CO Colombia | #119 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 675 | — | Mariana | 195 |
| SE Sweden | — | 70,241as Marianne | 1 in 145 | 70K | Marijana | 39 |
| PT Portugal | #34 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 202 | 560 | Mariana | 185 |
| DK Denmark | — | 25,598as Marianne | 1 in 229 | 26K | Marijana | 20 |
| MD Moldova | #227 | 22,934 | 1 in 147 | 23K | Mariana | 31 |
| FI Finland | #407 | 21,169as Marianne | 1 in 263 | 26K | Марианна | 44 |
451,762 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mariana is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, de Miryam, probablement de mrym, aimée, désirée.
as a nameRussian Names
In Italian, feminine singular of mariano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, essive singular of Maria
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of Mariānus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mariana Victoria of Spainb. 1718ESInfanta of Spain by birth, later regent of Portugal (lived 1718-1781)
- Mary Andersonb. 1866USnot in their usual nameinventor of the windshield wiper blade (1866–1953)
- Mariana Mazzucatob. 1968ITItalian-American economist, professor (University College London)
- Mariana Popovab. 1978BGBulgarian singer
- Mariana Klavenob. 1979USAmerican actress
- Mariana Ximenesb. 1981BRBrazilian actress
- Mariana Duqueb. 1989COColombian tennis player
- Lali Espósitob. 1991ARnot in their usual nameArgentine singer and actress
- Marob. 1994PTnot in their usual namePortuguese singer (1994-)
- Mariamne Inot in their usual namesecond wife of Herod the Great
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 114 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 452K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 450K | #53 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 383K | #110 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 382K | #20 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 29K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 23K | #47 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11K | #185 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 11K | #185 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6.9K | #508 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #53 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.9K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.8K | #586 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Mariana have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 452 thousand people named Mariana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariana.
- Where is Mariana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mariana is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 147 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Mariana?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾjana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Mariana mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Marian, Mariana, or Marianne Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mariana a male or female name?
- Mariana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Mariana?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages; Marianita is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Mariana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 451,762 people named Mariana in 2022, about 1 in 469 residents.
- How common is Mariana compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mariana is the 108th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mariana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marianaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mariana” — the 108th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.