Girl · French, from Hebrew
Marianne
Say it: mair-ee-AN
Meaning
A French combination of Marie and Anne, partly also from Mariamne, an old Greek form of Hebrew Miryam.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Marianne became the symbol of the French Republic after the Revolution; the name was most used in the US in the 1940s and 1950s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1950s
In the United States
- 65,096 babies given this name since 1886
- At its height in 1957, about 1 in 677 girls
- 90 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Maryann, Mariann
| French | Marianne |
|---|---|
| Italian | Marianna |
Famous bearers
- Marianne Moore, American poet
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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