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
Marietta through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #352 among girls with 21 babies in 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.