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Marianna

A blend of Maria and Anna, two of the oldest names in Polish use, folded into one. It sits inside the country's top names, common enough that most people know at least one Marianna.

Marianna Pronunciation

Marianna is pronounced mahr-YAHN-nah (/marˈjanna/).

Related names
Marianne Marian
Alive in 2025
111,172
Newborns 2025
486
National rank
#120
Next name day
2 June
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What Marianna means

Where Marianna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Marianna sets two names beside each other and lets them fuse: Maria and Anna, pressed into one shape. That fusion is the whole meaning, and it stays legible in the variants maryan and marian, where the second name still shows through the first.

Two names, one. In Poland the joined form earned a place in the calendar. Marianna holds an imieniny on 26 May, so each spring the calendar returns the name to everyone who answers to it.

You can watch it work on an official form at the urząd, where a clerk copies Marianna into a box built for a single word, though it started life as two. The origin logged here is Slavic, and the sense stays plain: Maria and Anna, kept together under one signature.

When Marianna celebrates name day

Marianna appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 2 June.

Next name day
2 June
Wednesday in 2027
Next one in 220 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Marianna

1 in 203 women in Poland is named Marianna. 111,172 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #120 among female names.

People with the name Marianna 2019 → 2025
111,172 −33,242 since 2019
2020 141,550 −2,864
2021 134,167 −7,383
2022 126,856 −7,311
2023 121,292 −5,564
2024 116,195 −5,097
2025 111,172 −5,023

Marianna's popularity over time

486 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #111 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.

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486 newborns with the name Marianna in 2025
national rank #111 that year

Where parents choose Marianna

Marianna is most popular in Greater Poland, 97% above the national average (784 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+34%) and Pomeranian (+17%). It is least common in Opole and Subcarpathian, 73% and 46% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +97%
    1 in 275 babies
  • Masovian
    +34%
    1 in 403 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +17%
    1 in 462 babies
Chosen least
  • Opole
    −73%
    1 in 2,004 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    −46%
    1 in 996 babies
  • Silesian
    −44%
    1 in 968 babies

Marianna as a middle name

Marianna is a first name for 111,172 women in Poland and a middle name for another 77,344, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 39th, between Natalia (79,190) and Józefa (75,437).

As a first name
111,172
As a middle name
77,344
first name 59% middle name 41%
Middle-name ranking women

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