Mariela

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mariela is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Paraguay it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From María + -ela.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 639◐
  • PYParaguay1 in 813
  • VEVenezuela1 in 910

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈47K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
317 ●

1.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.1K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

MarielaLatin · Spanish●1.7M records
מריאלהHebrew · Hebrew●940 records
ΜαριελαGreek · Greek●89 records

Locally spelled מריאלה in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From María + -ela.

Sources 2

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mariela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1621,069,723647K rec.—28Mariela150
VE Venezuela#118207,45175K rec.——Mariela78
PE Peru#238134,077108K rec.——Mariela84
MX Mexico#36499,54374K rec.—399Mariela166
CL Chile#22166,2045.2K rec.—11Mariela102
PY Paraguay#6438,80318K rec.——Mariela48
CO Colombia#26027,28115K rec.—12Mariela96
US United States—20,35282K rec.1 in 16K20KMariela317
EC Ecuador#21014,837△979 rec.1 in 1.1K15KMariela56
CR Costa Rica#4164,15115K rec.1 in 1.2K4.2KMariela76
ES Spain#6313,57316K rec.1 in 14K3.6KMariela113
BR Brazil—3,49312K rec.1 in 61K3.5KMariela105

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish1.7M83%
  • English123K6%
  • Portuguese63K3%
  • 10K1%
  • Bulgarian4.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,701,92083%
English122,9916%
Portuguese63,1093%
10,4381%
Bulgarian4,3881%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mariela is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name11K records spelled Mariela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bolivia, United Kingdom, Ecuador

    Also written Maríela

  • Bulgarian given name8.3K records spelled Mariela31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, United States, Poland

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Мариела, Mariella, Мариэла, Маріела, Мариелла

  • Finnish given name2.2K records spelled Mariela3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Spain, United States, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Marïêlä

  • Czech given name633 records spelled Mariela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Czechia, United States, Spain

    Also written Mãřïěĺá

  • Hungarian given name367 records spelled Mariela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Hungary, United States, Slovenia

    Also written Máríelá

  • Albanian given name364 records spelled Mariela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States

    Also written Märiela

  • a separate given name194 records spelled Mariela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Bolivia

    Also written M҉̹̙͙̣̼̪a͙̺̼̫͕r̟̰̬i̵͓̙̰̭e̝̠l̗͓̦͡a͞, Maríela, M̶a̶r̶i̶e̶l̶a̶

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mariela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K194019601980200020201.2K · 1979

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Mariela in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1921–2021
Yearrecords
19211
19221
19231
19242
19251
19263
19273
19285
19293
19307
19319
193213
19334
193410
193513
193619
193710
193815
193912
19409
194119
194210
194320
194424
194525
194633
194728
194839
194942
195035
195138
195240
195356
195480
1955107
1956106
1957102
1958174
1959216
1960211
1961284
1962276
1963305
1964305
1965308
1966308
1967378
1968374
1969350
1970370
1971374
1972503
1973458
1974877
1975634
1976940
1977619
1978610
19791,193
1980867
1981712
1982667
1983492
1984399
1985385
1986318
1987290
1988263
1989261
1990279
1991246
1992320
1993226
1994203
1995192
1996147
1997157
1998112
1999104
200094
200186
200295
200369
200465
200563
200670
200750
200840
200933
201054
201140
201233
201348
201429
201521
201620
201714
20189
20199
20205
202111

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 101 years between 1921–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Mariela Pérez, b. 1946Mariela Castro, b. 1962Mariela Baeva, b. 1964Mariela Antoniska, b. 1975Mariela Ortiz, b. 1976Mariela Coronel, b. 1981Emme, b. 1982Mariela Scarone, b. 1986Mariela Garriga, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 71 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Mariela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202020K#1,579
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202415K#141
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—4.2K#185
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.6K#1,154
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.5K#3,505
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3K#4,693
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.9K#668
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—463#2,244
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—429—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—399#258
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020221—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 723 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mariela?
We estimate roughly 47 thousand people bear Mariela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Mariela have the most bearers?
Mariela is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled mariela.
How common is Mariela compared with other names?
In Argentina, Mariela is the 162nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Mariela a male or female name?
Mariela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Mariela mean?
Recorded meaning: From María + -ela.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mariela” — the 162nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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