Marilla

Where Marilla comes from

An American fanciful variant of Maria.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marilla
  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1840
    Marilla Ricker born
    American suffragist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #740
    7 babies named Marilla — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria.
Namesakes
  • Marilla Ricker · American suffragist, 1840–1920

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.