Mariela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾjela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mariela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 72nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From María + -ela.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 467(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 801
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 850
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 467 (inferred from the name graph)
≈97,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From María + -ela.
Sources 2
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mariela 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 | #148 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 467 | 28 | Mariela | 157 |
| VE Venezuela | #138 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 850 | — | Mariela | 80 |
| CO Colombia | #273 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 12 | Mariela | 101 |
| PE Peru | #216 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Mariela | 92 |
| US United States | — | 20,404 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Mariela | 352 |
| BO Bolivia | #564 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 688 | — | Mariela | 60 |
| EC Ecuador | #145 | 14,837 | 1 in 1.1K | 15K | Mariela | 59 |
| PY Paraguay | #72 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 801 | — | Mariela | 51 |
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 — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Mariela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Mariela Pérezb. 1946VEVenezuelan model
- Mariela Castrob. 1962CUCuban activist
- Mariela Baevab. 1964BGpolitician
- Mariela Antoniskab. 1975ARfield hockey player
- Mariela Ortizb. 1976USAmerican voice actor
- Mariela Coronelb. 1981ARArgentinian footballer
- Emmeb. 1982ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian singer and actress
- Mariela Scaroneb. 1986AROlympic field hockey player
- Mariela Garrigab. 1989CUCuban actress
- Mariela BesuievskyUYfilm producer
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 72 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20K | #1,579 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 15K | #141 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 183 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 52 | #1,579 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 28 | #1,373 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 12 | #109 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Mariela mean, and where does it come from?
- From María + -ela. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Mariela?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾjela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Mariela?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mariela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 97 thousand people named Mariela in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariela.
- How common is the name Mariela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,404 people named Mariela in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Mariela compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Mariela is the 148th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
- Is Mariela a male or female name?
- Mariela 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 do you want to know about Mariela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marielaThe 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, “Mariela” — the 148th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.