In 2025, 1,192 US girls were named Mariana, making it the 261st most common girls’ name of the year, down 18 places from #243 in 2024. That is 109 fewer than the 1,301 girls named Mariana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #165, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,062. For comparison, it was #297 in 2015 and #1,781 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mariana in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 45,972 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 15,862 babies named Mariana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,985 US girls were named Mariana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,301. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,348 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mariana ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #103 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maria (570,389 babies since 1880), Marian (143,295 babies since 1880), Marianne (65,569 babies since 1880) and Marianna (18,444 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marena, Maryana and Marionna are summarised on this page.