Mariel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mariel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 51st most common given name.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 3K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.4K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mariel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #684 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Mariel | 100 |
| AR Argentina | #250 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 72 | Mariel | 121 |
| US United States | — | 9,033 | 1 in 37K | 8.8K | Mariel | 293 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #51 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Mariel | 49 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Mariel | 38 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,016 | 1 in 5K | 1K | — | 52 |
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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)
Mariel 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.
English: 1 Shortened form of MARIELLA . 2 Altered form of MURIEL or MERIEL . Top
as a word
In Cebuano, Mariel (a municipality of Artemisa Province, Cuba)
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)
- Mariel Mariscotb. 1940BRBrazilian police officer (1940 - 1981)
- Mariel Hemingwayb. 1961USAmerican actress and author
- Mónica Sánchezb. 1970PEnot in their usual namePeruvian actress
- Mariel Maciáb. 1980ARArgentinian film producer
- Mariel Everton Cosmo Da Silvab. 1980BRBrazilian footballer
- Mariel Martínezb. 1980ARTango singer
- Mariel Zagunisb. 1985USAmerican fencer
- Mariel Molinob. 1992USAmerican actress (born 1992/3)
- Mariël Borgerinkb. 1992NLcyclist
- Mariel Vázquezb. 2000MXMexican mathematical biologist
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 67 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.8K | #2,628 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1K | #554 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 298 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 262 | #2,628 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 72 | #887 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Is Mariel a male or female name?
- Mariel 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.
- How common is the name Mariel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,033 people named Mariel in 2020, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Mariel compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Mariel is the 684th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Mariel?
- 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 Mariel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Mariel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariel.
What do you want to know about Mariel?
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/marielThe 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, “Mariel” — the 684th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.