Marian

Where Marian comes from

A variant of Marion, a medieval derivation of Mary, often also interpreted as a contraction of Mary and Ann, or as a variant of Mariana.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marian
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #205 among girls — 56 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1897
    Marian Anderson born
    African-American contralto
  3. 1905
    Marian Rejewski born
    Polish mathematician and cryptologist
  4. 1924
    Peak, #64
    4,197 babies named Marian — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #114.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Marian Anderson · African-American contralto, 1897–1993
  • Marian Rejewski · Polish mathematician and cryptologist, 1905–1980
  • Marian Lupu · Moldovan politician, born 1966
  • Marian Smoluchowski · Polish physicist, 1872–1917
  • Marian Seldes · American stage, film, radio, and television actress, 1928–2014

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.