Marietta
Feminine
Marietta is the Italian double diminutive of Maria — little little Mary — and it is also a town in Ohio, named for a French queen at the moment America was thanking France.
How old is the name Marietta?
Marietta was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Marietta alive today was born around 1939, making them about 86 years old. About 6,900 people named Marietta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marietta most popular?
Marietta peaked in 1880, reaching #352 nationally. Today it ranks #3645, 3,293 places below that high. See the whole 1880 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Miriam to Marietta
The story of Marietta
Italian builds diminutives freely, and Maria gives Mariella, Marietta and Mariuccia, each a shade smaller and warmer than the last. The name reached America with Italian emigration. Quite separately, settlers named an Ohio town Marietta in 1788 for Marie Antoinette, in gratitude for French support in the Revolution — a dedication that aged unusually badly within five years.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Maria's own meaning is genuinely unsettled: bitterness, rebellion and an Egyptian origin have all been proposed for the underlying Miriam and none is established. The -etta ending is an Italian diminutive and carries no meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- Miriam
- Maria
- Marietta
Related forms: Marietta · Marieta · Marietta
Pronouncing Marietta
mah-ree-ET-tah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Every letter is sounded in Italian.
Nicknames for Marietta
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1921295 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #352reached in 1880
- Change vs 2022
- +20.6%41 in 2025, from 34
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.
Marietta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marietta in Italian — same name
- Marieta in Spanish — same name
- Marietta in Greek — same name
Mariettas among us
people named Marietta are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was named Marietta
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Marietta
- #3645
- Marietta on the 2025 chart
- #914
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Marietta went to 41 girls in 2025, but Maryetta is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 46, which makes it the 914th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,731 places above the chart.
- Marietta41
- Maryetta5
About 1 girl in 34,941 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 39,202 for Marietta 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
Fashion outlook
Marietta 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 Marietta is headed
Marietta 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.
Marietta beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marietta in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Mari, Etta and Mia are all complete names in their own right.
- Every letter is said, so Italian and Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- Genuine nineteenth-century American use behind it.
- Nine letters and four syllables is a great deal for early handwriting.
- It is a double diminutive by construction, which reads as small to Italian speakers.
- Maria's own meaning is genuinely unknown, which surprises people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mariettas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,900 people named Marietta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Marietta?
- Marietta is the most-used spelling in US records — 41 of the 46 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maryetta.
- How popular is the name Marietta in 2025?
- Marietta ranks #3645 among US girl names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marietta?
- About 1 in every 39,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Marietta — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marietta with classmates?
- Marietta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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