Marijana

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mariana in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 13 more, Marianna in PL Poland, HU Hungary, FI Finland, Марианна in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and Мар’яна in UA Ukraine.

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●

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Marijana is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Romanian given name83 records spelled Marijana2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Serbia, United States, Romania

  Also written Mari-Jana

32 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●

Marijana 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 word·Tēzaurs.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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Marijana Lubejb. 1945SIsprinter and athletics competitor
• Marijana Granditsb. 1954ATAustrian politician
• Marianna Labab. 1968UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian singer
• Maja Marijanab. 1972RSSerbian singer
• Marianna Kiyanovskab. 1973UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet, writer and translator (born 1973)
• Marijana Petirb. 1975HRCroatian politician
• Marijana Petrovićb. 1977RSFrench linguist of Serbian origin
• Marijana Mikulićb. 1981HRCroatian actress
• Marijana Jankovićb. 1982MEDanish actress
• Marijana Markovićb. 1982DEGerman épée fencer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 179 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marijana?

We estimate roughly 980 thousand people bear Marijana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Marijana have the most bearers?

Marijana is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled mariana.

Where is Marijana most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marijana is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 145 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Marijana compared with other names?

In Argentina, Marijana is the 132nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Marijana a male or female name?

Marijana 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 Marijana mean?

Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von