Marietta

Where Marietta comes from

From Italian Marietta. By surface analysis, Maria /Marie /Mary + -etta. Piecewise doublet of Mariette.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marietta
  • Italian
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #352 among girls with 21 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1888
    Marietta Shaginyan born
    Soviet writer, poet and journalist
  3. 1894
    Marietta Blau born
    Austrian nuclear physicist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian, a diminutive of Maria.
Namesakes
  • Marietta Blau · Austrian nuclear physicist, 1894–1970
  • Marietta Shaginyan · Soviet writer, poet and journalist, 1888–1982
  • Marietta Alboni · Italian operatic contralto, 1826–1894
  • Marietta Robusti · Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (1560? – 1590), 1554–1590
  • Marietta Giannakou · Greek politician, 1951–2022

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.