Mariela

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.

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Mariela, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Araceli
• Pilar
• Elena
• Julieta
• Adriana

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.

Mariela is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Maríela

• Bulgarian given name31 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Peru, United States, Croatia

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Russian

  Also written Мариела, Mariella, Мариэла, Маріела, Мариелла

• Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Finland, Peru

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Marïêlä

• Czech given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, Czechia, United States, Spain

  Also written Mãřïěĺá

• Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, Hungary, United States, Argentina

  Also written Máríelá

• Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States

  Also written Märiela

• a separate given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Bolivia, United Kingdom

  Also written Maríela, M̶a̶r̶i̶e̶l̶a̶, M҉̹̙͙̣̼̪a͙̺̼̫͕r̟̰̬i̵͓̙̰̭e̝̠l̗͓̦͡a͞

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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 word·Tēzaurs.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.

• Mariela Castrob. 1962CUCuban activist
• Mariela Scaroneb. 1986AROlympic field hockey player
• 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).

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.

72 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Mariela mean, and where does it come from?

From María + -ela. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.

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.

How do you pronounce Mariela?

In Spanish /maɾjela/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people named Mariela?

Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Mariela in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariela. After it come Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.

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. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Ecuador (INEC, 2024), Spain (INE) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022), among others.