In 2025, 41 US girls were named Marietta, making it the 3,684th most common girls’ name of the year, up 944 places from #4,628 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 30 girls named Marietta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #361, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 295, in 1921. For comparison, it was #5,069 in 2015 and #495 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marietta in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 21 babies with the name. In all, 15,055 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,440 babies named Marietta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 332 US girls were named Marietta; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marie (542,270 babies since 1880), Mariella (5,213 babies since 1880) and Marita (5,088 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maryetta, Mariette and Maretta are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mae, Mamie, Maria, Mariah, Marie and Marion.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.