How Many People Are Named Marietta?

6,618

people named Marietta are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 51,644 people in the US has this name

Based on 15,055 babies named Marietta in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,139

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,750

See the top 100

Peak Year

1921

295 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Italian, Greek, Hungarian
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Italian, Greek and Hungarian diminutive of MARIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Marietta in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Marietta alive today is about 62 years old, and 68% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 53 and 77 in 2025.

Under 30 757
11.4%
30 to 59 1,346
20.3%
60 and over 4,515
68.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Marietta first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 295 babies. In 2025, 41 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Marietta has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #361, in 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,683.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,683
Best rank#361 (1880)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#439 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Marietta alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Marietta were born in New York than in any other state: about 516 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Marietta was given 2.6 times as often in Indiana, 1.9 times in Kansas and 1.9 times in Kentucky.

New York 516
Illinois 347
California 295
Pennsylvania 287
Texas 191
Michigan 186
Ohio 180
Indiana 177
Missouri 156
Kentucky 150
New Jersey 129
Louisiana 96
Virginia 90
North Carolina 88
Tennessee 64
Alabama 59
Minnesota 52
Kansas 50
Florida 49
Iowa 46
Wisconsin 45
Oklahoma 33
Arkansas 32
Georgia 28
West Virginia 25
Massachusetts 25
Washington 24
Arizona 23
South Carolina 23
Connecticut 21
Mississippi 20
New Mexico 19
Maryland 19
District of Columbia 19
Nebraska 18
North Dakota 14
Oregon 5
South Dakota 5
Colorado 4
Idaho 2

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