Mariel
#893 for girls in 2025, 298 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 98.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 268 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,482since 1914
Mariel over time
Rank among girls' names. Mariel has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #893 | 298 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #1,039 | 242 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,255 | 183 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,048 | 94 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,286 | 80 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,965 | 96 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,285 | 79 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,026 | 96 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,703 | 125 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,828 | 113 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,839 | 112 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 88 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,032 | 95 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,216 | 85 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,860 | 109 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,822 | 118 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,800 | 121 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #1,752 | 123 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,691 | 124 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,681 | 118 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,654 | 117 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 123 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,432 | 133 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,600 | 115 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #1,231 | 161 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,358 | 130 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,312 | 135 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #1,163 | 159 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,064 | 174 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,126 | 157 | — | |
| 1994 | #941 | 197 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #934 | 202 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #771 | 268 | — | |
| 1991 | #811 | 252 | — | |
| 1990 | #957 | 196 | — | |
| 1989 | #995 | 173 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #775 | 242 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #866 | 196 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #967 | 163 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #981 | 156 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #1,157 | 117 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #1,179 | 111 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,152 | 122 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,122 | 123 | — | |
| 1980 | #995 | 147 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #1,301 | 96 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #2,629 | 32 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,557 | 33 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,233 | 20 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | — | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,937 | 13 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,898 | 13 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,762 | 11 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,668 | 11 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,881 | 18 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,914 | 17 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,801 | 18 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,418 | 27 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,913 | 17 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,404 | 12 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,365 | 13 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,105 | 15 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,425 | 13 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,191 | 15 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,497 | 13 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,828 | 22 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,489 | 14 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,152 | 10 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 | — | |
| 1917 | #3,344 | 8 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mariel! It came in at #3,188, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mariel is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#580 · 1 in 4,658
- Massachusetts#598 · 1 in 6,324
- Pennsylvania#701 · 1 in 7,705
- New York#719 · 1 in 5,961
- Georgia#775 · 1 in 6,964
Best ever in a state: #292 in Arizona, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #580 | 8 | 1 in 4,658 |
| Massachusetts | #598 | 5 | 1 in 6,324 |
| Pennsylvania | #701 | 9 | 1 in 7,705 |
| New York | #719 | 17 | 1 in 5,961 |
| Georgia | #775 | 5 | 1 in 6,964 |
| Illinois | #844 | 9 | 1 in 8,350 |
| California | #903 | 22 | 1 in 8,241 |
| Texas | #1,207 | 9 | 1 in 13,748 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mariel
- 146 spots since 2024 (#1,039 → #893)
- 1,072 spots since 2020 (#1,965 → #893)
- 946 spots since 2015 (#1,839 → #893)
- Biggest jump: 306 spots in 1980 (#1,301 → #995)
- Biggest drop: 220 spots in 1989 (#775 → #995)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1992 at #771 (268 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1985–1994
- Highest: 1 in 5,394 girls born in 2025 were named Mariel (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #771 in 1992, was only 1 in 6,880 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.0% of all girls named Mariel (1,870) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 45 | #2,900 (1915) | #3,386 |
| 1920s | 116 | #1,828 (1927) | #3,015 |
| 1930s | 161 | #1,418 (1935) | #2,081 |
| 1940s | 101 | #2,572 (1940) | #3,135 |
| 1950s | 79 | #2,937 (1951) | #4,275 |
| 1960s | 68 | #4,198 (1969) | #5,279 |
| 1970s | 269 | #1,301 (1979) | #3,481 |
| 1980s | 1,550 | #775 (1988) | #1,019 |
| 1990s | 1,870 | #771 (1992) | #1,044 |
| 2000s | 1,253 | #1,231 (2000) | #1,622 |
| 2010s | 977 | #1,703 (2017) | #2,039 |
| 2020s | 993 | #893 (2025) | #1,581 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mariel in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 13,561 of them was named Mariel, which outranked 90.8% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,114Janis124
- #1,114Nicholas124
- #1,114Toya124
- #1,122Mariel123
- #1,122Amberly123
- #1,122Ava123
- #1,122Denisha123
- #1,128Ciara122
- #1,128Karri122
- #1,128Kasandra122
Tied with 5 names at #1,122; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.