Mariano
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Mariano, from the Latin family name Marianus (a derivative of the ancient personal name Marius, of Etruscan origin)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾjano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mariano is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 453(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 453 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Mariano, from the Latin family name Marianus (a derivative of the ancient personal name Marius, of Etruscan origin). In the early Christian era it came to be taken as an adjective derived from Maria, and was associated with the cult of the Virgin Mary. It was borne by various early saints, including a 3rd-century martyr in Numibia and a 5th-century hermit of Berry, France.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Mariano, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mariano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #152 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 453 | 2.1K | Mariano | 206 |
| PH Philippines | #573 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Mariano | 106 |
| ES Spain | #139 | 38,416 | 1 in 1.3K | 41K | Mariano | 215 |
| PE Peru | #268 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Mariano | 88 |
| IT Italy | #541 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 44 | Mariano | 145 |
| PY Paraguay | #186 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Mariano | 40 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Mariano is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the Roman family name Mariadnus, ultimately from Mars, the Roman god of war. Feminine form: Mariana.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
From Latin; a derivative of Marius (see main dictionary). Feminine form: Mariana.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Portuguese, Marian (relating to Virgin Mary)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, forma ital. de Marianus; pode indicar hab. de localidades chamadas Mariano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Patronimico; in apparenza da Maria e Mario, ma di etimologie diverse. S. Mariano martire (10 dicembre).
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
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)
- Mariano Aristab. 1802MXPresident of Mexico (1851–1853)
- Marià Fortuny i Marsalb. 1838ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter (1838-1874)
- Josemaría Escriváb. 1902ESnot in their usual nameSpanish priest, writer and Catholic saint
- Mariano Rumorb. 1915ITItalian politician (1915-1990)
- Mariano Martínb. 1919ESSpanish footballer (1919-1998)
- Detto Marianob. 1937ITItalian composer (1937–2020)
- Mariano Rajoyb. 1955ESSpanish politician (born 1955)
- Rafael Grossib. 1961ARnot in their usual nameArgentine diplomat
- Mariano Andújarb. 1983ARArgentine association football player
- Florian Thauvinb. 1993FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1993)
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 96 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41K | #89 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 38K | #211 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 241 | #457 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 116 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 116 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 44 | #299 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Mariano mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Mariano, from the Latin family name Marianus (a derivative of the ancient personal name Marius, of Etruscan origin). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mariano?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾjano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Mariano a male or female name?
- Mariano is a male 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 Mariano?
- In the etymology graph, Mario, Marian and Marijan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mariano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Mariano in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariano.
- How common is the name Mariano?
- In Spain, the national register counted 38,416 people named Mariano, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Mariano compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Mariano is the 152nd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mariano?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marianoThe 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, “Mariano” — the 152nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.