Mariela
Just 115 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met a Mariela. A pet form of Maria, from Latin, glossed as "the loved one".
Mariela Pronunciation
Mariela is pronounced mahr-YE-lah (/marˈjɛla/).
What Mariela means
Where Mariela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mariela grows out of María, the Latin form of a name that Spanish speakers softened and lengthened into something of their own. The ending -ela does the work of affection, marking Mariela as a diminutive that reads as "beloved little Maria." Latin gave the root; Spanish gave the shape.
The meaning of "beloved" is a reading that gathered around Maria over centuries. It sits later than the name's oldest form. Mariela inherits that warmth secondhand and wears it lightly.
Real bearers anchor it. Mariela Castro, the Cuban activist born in 1962 and daughter of Raúl Castro, is one documented example, still public in her country's life today. In Spain and Latin America the name stays common without ever topping the charts.
In a Polish class register, Mariela sits a little apart from the Marias and Marysias around it, foreign at the edge, familiar at the root. A teacher reading it aloud hears María underneath. The name means, plainly, beloved.
How many people are named Mariela
1 in 196033 women in Poland is named Mariela. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3160 among female names.
Mariela as a middle name
Mariela is a first name for 115 women in Poland and a middle name for another 27, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1377th, between Maree (27) and Michela (27).
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#1375 Latika27
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#1376 Maree27
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#1377 Mariela27
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#1378 Michela27
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#1379 Mona27