Marianne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: French; a form of Mary/Marian, associated with Hebrew meaning 'bitter' and the star of the sea
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marianne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 16as Maria(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 16as Maria
- BRBrazil1 in 17as Maria
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 Marianne 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)
- #1 (measured from records)
- 11 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 679 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16 (inferred from the name graph)
12,284,478 named Maria, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador, as Maria
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maria in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, EC Ecuador and 1 more, Mary in US United States, PH Philippines, CZ Czechia and Мария in RU Russia.
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)
French; a form of Mary/Marian, associated with Hebrew meaning 'bitter' and the star of the sea.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marianne is read(measured from records)
Marianne 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.
- English53%
French; a form of Mary/Marian, associated with Hebrew meaning 'bitter' and the star of the sea.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
The personification of France, a woman symbolizing liberty and reason and appearing on French coins, stamps, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marianne in German.
- French11%
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)
Marianne 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 | #1 | 12,284,478as Maria | 1 in 17 | 12M | Maria | 306 |
| AR Argentina | #1 | ≈2,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 20 | 5.3K | Maria | 253 |
| RU Russia | #19 | ≈2,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 72 | #4 | Мария | 263 |
| US United States | #1 | 1,768,343as Mary | 1 in 188 | 1.8M | Mary | 679 |
| PH Philippines | #1 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | 27K | Mary | 225 |
| EC Ecuador | #1 | 1,042,139as Maria | 1 in 16 | 1M | Maria | 165 |
| CZ Czechia | #22 | 521,052as Marie | 1 in 21 | 521K | Mary | 130 |
| SV El Salvador | #2 | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 16 | 627 | Maria | 110 |
12,284,478 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; INEC — civil registry names; This page discusses the popularity of names in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and Puno, Peru in the 1980s, published by Maybe i; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Marianne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Extended spelling of Marian, reinforcing the association of the second element with pAnn(e). It also represents a French assimilated form of Mariamne. Marianne is the name used for the symbolic figure of the French Republic.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Marianne (m.fl. former) är dels en sammansättning av → Maria (Marie) och → Anne, dels en fransk smekform av → Maria. Det kan också vara en form av det arameiska Mariamne. I den rikssvenska almanackan 4 april och i den finlandssvenska 15 augusti.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Marianne Northb. 1831GBEnglish philanthropist, painter, biologist and botanical artist (1830-1890)
- Sophia of Nassaub. 1836DEnot in their usual nameSwedish queen (1836–1913)
- Marianne Mooreb. 1887USAmerican poet (1887–1972)
- Marianne Zoffb. 1893ATAustrian opera singer (1893–1984)
- Marianne Kochb. 1931DEGerman actress
- Marianne Faithfullb. 1946GBEnglish singer and actress (1946–2025)
- Marianne Muellerleileb. 1948USAmerican actress
- Marianne Williamsonb. 1952USAmerican political activist
- Marianne Jean-Baptisteb. 1967GBBritish actress
- Marianne Timmerb. 1974NLDutch speed skater
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 96 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57K | #824 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.8K | #2,810 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.6K | #5,095 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 246 | #860 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 240 | — |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 123 | #951 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 110 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40 | #824 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #2,810 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 6 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2022 | 4 | #3,485 |
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
- What does the name Marianne mean, and where does it come from?
- French; a form of Mary/Marian, associated with Hebrew meaning 'bitter' and the star of the sea. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Marianne a male or female name?
- Marianne 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 Marianne?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Miriam and Mariana are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Mary and Marie.
- In which country does Marianne have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 million people named Maria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marianne most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Marianne itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 16 people named Maria.
- How common is the name Marianne?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,284,478 people named Maria in 2022, about 1 in 17 residents.
- How common is Marianne compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Marianne is the most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marianneThe 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, “Marianne” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.