Mariella
Mariella was given to 274 girls in 2025, #943 among girls’ names; 5,213 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,870 Americans named Mariella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mariella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mariella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mariella is “a female given name.”
Borrowed from Italian Mariella.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mariella?
#943 among girls’ names, 2025
Mariella rose from #1,422 in 2015 to #943 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.17 per 1,000.
274 babies in 2025, the peak
Mariella peaked in 2025, when 274 girls were given it, #943 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 262 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 274 | #943 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 262 | #988 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,103 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 197 | #1,225 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 190 | #1,240 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,258 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,458 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 181 | #1,274 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,327 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 177 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 163 | #1,422 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,431 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 157 | #1,437 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,509 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,537 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,511 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 172 | #1,381 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,628 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,631 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,717 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,761 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,128 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,217 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,517 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,394 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,655 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,803 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,597 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,575 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,780 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,329 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,913 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,638 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,381 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,257 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,857 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,444 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,193 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,297 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,716 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,571 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,198 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,211 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,967 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,808 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,882 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,342 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,214 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,854 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,474 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,274 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,017 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,446 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,978 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,551 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,010 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,202 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,815 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,946 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,377 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,759 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,118 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,097 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,076 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,884 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,338 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,440 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,101 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,098 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,221 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,862 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,635 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,192 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,167 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,136 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,620 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,673 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,000 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,877 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,228 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,136 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,415 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,955 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,042 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,464 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mariella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mariella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mariella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mariella, and how old are they?
4,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 5,213 Americans ever recorded as Mariella. The median Mariella alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 4,697 people named Mariella (4,689 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,654 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above 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 | 47 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 112 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 183 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 446 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,480 |
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 Mariella born?
The states with the most babies named Mariella are Texas, New York and California, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 42 | #720 | 0.9× |
| New York | 26 | #649 | 1.5× |
| California | 25 | #1,076 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 17 | #942 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 11 | #614 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #879 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #907 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #549 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #818 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 9 | #838 | 0.6× |
Where Mariella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mariella is most over-represented in New York: since 1914 it was given 1.5 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 girls’ 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 Mariella 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,275 babies since 1880, Mariella is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 274 of their 960 babies (29%), the second most given that year.
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 Mariella
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 Mariella and names like it
- Compare Mariella and MarielaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMariella peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mariella since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Mariella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mariella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.