In 2025, 198 US boys were named Mariano, making it the 1,087th most common boys’ name of the year, up 65 places from #1,152 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 182 boys named Mariano in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #733, reached in 1912. The most boys given the name in a single year was 215, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,156 in 2015 and #1,174 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mariano in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 5 babies. In all, 10,077 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,686 babies named Mariano.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,742 US boys were named Mariano; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 215. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,627 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mariano ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #661 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Marino and Marianno are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.