Marianna is a late Greek variant of the Hebrew name Miryam that could stand for ‘sea of bitterness’, ‘rebelliousness’, and ‘wished for child’. In modern times, it is seen as a combination of Maria and Anna.
Marianna is a female first name.
The name Marianna isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Marianna ranks 770. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Marianna. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Marianna.
You may not know anyone named Marianna, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to women and girls named Marianna. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Marianna living in one state or another. If your name is Marianna and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Arizona, which has the most people named Marianna relative to the population, you still have to ask 5,326 women and girls their names before you hear Marianna as an answer just once.
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 eight letters, the name Marianna is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Marianna 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 Marianna, 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.
Marianna
Marianna
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. Marianna sounds like this:
