Marianne
Feminine · “bitter or beloved”
Marianne is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 65,520 girls against 49 boys since 1880.
Marianne is the French Republic. The compound of Marie and Anne became the personified figure of the Republic in the 1790s, and her bust stands in every town hall in France.
How old is the name Marianne?
Marianne first appears in US birth records in 1886 — 139 years ago. The typical Marianne alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 47,500 people named Marianne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marianne most popular?
Marianne peaked in 1957, reaching #139 nationally. Today it ranks #1818, 1,679 places below that high. See the whole 1957 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marie + Anne to Marianne
The story of Marianne
Marie and Anne were the two commonest French women's names, and their compound was ordinary — which is exactly why it was chosen to personify the Republic: Marianne was a name for everybody's daughter. The figure appears from the 1790s and became the official emblem of France. English-speaking countries borrowed the name, and American use peaked in the mid-1950s.
Meaningscholars disagree
bitter or beloved, and grace
A compound of Marie and Anne. Marie goes back to the Hebrew Miryam, whose meaning has never been settled. Anne is from the Hebrew channah, 'grace' or 'favor', which is secure. The name may also be read as a French elaboration of Mariana, from the Roman Marius.
How the name formed
- Marie + Anne
- Marianne
Related forms: Marianne · Marianna · Marianne · Maryann
Pronouncing Marianne
ma-ree-ANN
Three syllables, stress on the last. The English Maryann puts the stress on the first instead.
Nicknames for Marianne
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1886
- Most girls named
- 19573,023 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #139reached in 1957
- Change vs 2022
- +18.3%110 in 2025, from 93
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marianne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marianne in French — same name
- Marianna in Italian — related form
- Marianne in German — same name
- Maryann in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Mariannes among us
people named Marianne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,612 born in 2025 was named Marianne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Marianne
- #1818
- Marianne on the 2025 chart
- #809
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Marianne went to 110 girls in 2025, but Maryanne is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 151, which makes it the 809th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,009 places above the chart.
- Marianne110
- Maryanne41
About 1 girl in 10,644 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 14,612 for Marianne itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Erma test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marianne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Erma climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Erma's path sketches the road Marianne is walking now.
Marianne sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Marianne is headed
Marianne should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Marianne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marianne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is the national personification of France, which is an unusually substantial thing for a name to carry.
- Two of the most-used women's names in the world stand behind it.
- It is spelled identically in French and German.
- Several spellings and stress patterns are in use across English and French.
- Marie's own meaning is genuinely unsettled.
- It is period-coded to the middle of the twentieth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mariannes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 47,500 people named Marianne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Marianne?
- Marianne is the most-used spelling in US records — 110 of the 151 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maryanne.
- How popular is the name Marianne in 2025?
- Marianne ranks #1818 among US girl names in 2025, with 110 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marianne?
- About 1 in every 14,612 US girls born in 2025 was named Marianne — 110 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marianne with classmates?
- Marianne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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