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/).
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.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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.
Marianna's popularity over time
486 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #111 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where Marianna is most popular
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.
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Greater Poland784 girls born+97%
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Masovian880 girls born+34%
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Pomeranian319 girls born+17%
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Warmian-Masurian143 girls born+8%
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Lower Silesian309 girls born+6%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian202 girls born0%
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Lubusz89 girls born−3%
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West Pomeranian140 girls born−10%
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Łódź203 girls born−13%
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Świętokrzyskie76 girls born−26%
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Podlaskie88 girls born−28%
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Lublin122 girls born−36%
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Lesser Poland268 girls born−36%
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Silesian235 girls born−44%
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Subcarpathian121 girls born−46%
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Opole23 girls born−73%
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).
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#37 Izabela79,799
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#38 Natalia79,190
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#39 Marianna77,344
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#40 Józefa75,437
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#41 Justyna74,665