Marieta — girls' name
451 babies named Marieta in U.S. Social Security records since 1898, with the highest year being 1930. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
22% of everyone ever named Marieta was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Marieta in 1930 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marieta
The Social Security Administration has registered 451 babies named Marieta between 1898 and 2019, spanning 122 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marieta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1930, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marieta performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 98 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Marieta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marieta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 451 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Marieta at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marieta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1898
- Peak year (1930)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 122 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
451 total births across 122 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1930 with 16 births in a single year.
Marieta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- 98 births that decade — 22% of Marieta's all-time total
Marieta decade highlights
- Peak decade 98 births
- Runner-up 87 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1930s was Marieta's strongest decade
98 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1898–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.