Marian is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Marian is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,134 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,133 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 129,129 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marian. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Marian is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Marian for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Marian is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Marian is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 63 Marian easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1924.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marian was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 211 babies were named Marian in the USA in 2022, ranking it #1,036 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2011, when it was only ranked at #1,384 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 151 girls were named Marian.
The name Marian may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Marian is apparently especially popular in North Dakota. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 436 women in North Dakota is called Marian. In total, that’s 1,197 women who feel addressed when the name Marian is shouted loudly across North Dakota and who ensure that their name makes it to #126 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Marian as the answer a total of 129,070 times. This places Marian at #270 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Marian as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Marian is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Marian and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marian, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marian sounds like this:
