Mariano
Mariano was given to 198 boys in 2025, #1,087 among boys’ names; 10,077 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,040 Americans named Mariano and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 12 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mariano by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mariano mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Mariano is “a male given name from Latin”
From Latin Mariānus, derivative of the Roman gens name Marius, ultimately from the war god Mars. By folk etymology interpreted as a masculine form of Maria. Name of several Christian saints.
/maˈrja.no/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mariano?
#1,087 among boys’ names, 2025
Mariano rose from #1,156 in 2015 to #1,087 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.12 per 1,000.
215 babies in 2022, the peak
Mariano peaked in 2022, when 215 boys were given it, #1,031 among boys’ names. The 198 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 198 | #1,087 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 182 | #1,152 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,072 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 215 | #1,031 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,151 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 182 | #1,093 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 155 | #1,228 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,237 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 149 | #1,233 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,336 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (125)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 163 | #1,156 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,086 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,092 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,057 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 208 | #955 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 163 | #1,141 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,154 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 167 | #1,103 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 214 | #929 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,027 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 182 | #962 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 146 | #1,086 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,040 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 156 | #1,000 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 167 | #930 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 167 | #920 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 180 | #839 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 138 | #994 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,020 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,210 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 123 | #999 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,046 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 138 | #915 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 110 | #1,044 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 107 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,109 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 104 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 97 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 93 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 70 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 89 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,036 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 88 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,024 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 79 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 88 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 74 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 77 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 72 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 71 | #965 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 71 | #973 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 58 | #1,077 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,144 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 57 | #980 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 58 | #952 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,023 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,154 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,054 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 62 | #958 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,288 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 68 | #929 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,128 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 49 | #1,109 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 62 | #965 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,178 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,102 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,096 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 58 | #981 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 57 | #950 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,338 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,011 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,173 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,091 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,186 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,101 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,187 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,024 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,129 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,236 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,070 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,398 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 41 | #1,016 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,135 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 46 | #935 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 44 | #952 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,127 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 54 | #871 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 54 | #873 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 57 | #883 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 46 | #1,003 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 63 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 52 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 60 | #868 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 53 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 62 | #878 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 57 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 56 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 63 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 56 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 53 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 49 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 39 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 35 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 15 | #882 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 13 | #912 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 13 | #825 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,084 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 9 | #973 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,239 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,016 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,081 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mariano a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mariano has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 125 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mariano: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mariano, and how old are they?
8,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 10,077 Americans ever recorded as Mariano. The median Mariano alive today is 24 years old; half are between 12 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 14,757 people named Mariano (112 women and girls, 14,645 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 129 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 611 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 963 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,240 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mariano born?
The states with the most babies named Mariano are Texas, California and Florida, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 43 | #681 | 2.6× |
| California | 34 | #771 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 15 | #942 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 10 | #661 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,100 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,103 | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #751 | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | #1,944 | 1.2× |
| Colorado | 5 | #921 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,092 | 0.3× |
Where Mariano is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mariano is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mariano with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 12,308 babies since 1880, Mariano is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 198 of their 216 babies (92%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mariano
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mariano and names like it
- Compare Mariano and MarinoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMariano peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mariano since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Mariano: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Mariano.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mariano alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.