Mariel
- Pronunciation
- [Ma-ri-al]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Diminutive Of Maria.
- Origin
- English
Mariel Popularity Snapshot
Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 116 baby boys have been named Mariel. The name peaked in 1989 with 11 US births that year (rank #4702).
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6-Letter Names Starting with M
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Quick Facts About Mariel
US Popularity History (2025–2025)
Annual US births named Mariel by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 298 girls named Mariel (girl rank #893 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Mariel against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).