Marianne Forename
959th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 946,254 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Liechtenstein
Marianne Forename Definition:
A female name. Marion was originally a diminutive in -on of Mary (q.v.). It was common in the Middle Ages and later (cf. the surnames Marion, Maryan, Marrian, &c.). The spelling Marian led in the 18th C to the supposition that the name was really Mary + Anne, and Mary Ann was the first and chief of the double names which were so common then and in the early 19th C (e.
Read More About This ForenameMarianne Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 450,313 | 1:215 | 52 |
| United States | 100% | 106,209 | 1:3,413 | 566 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 51,308 | 1:329 | 49 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 51,301 | 1:160 | 18 |
| Austria | 100% | 37,973 | 1:224 | 52 |
| Denmark | - | 36,113 | 1:156 | 28 |
| France | 100% | 27,851 | 1:2,387 | 295 |
| Philippines | 99% | 23,276 | 1:4,554 | 773 |
| Norway | 100% | 22,757 | 1:226 | 36 |
| Belgium | 100% | 18,357 | 1:626 | 145 |
| Sweden | 100% | 13,990 | 1:705 | 132 |
| Egypt | 100% | 12,688 | 1:7,243 | 755 |
| Canada | 100% | 10,996 | 1:3,013 | 564 |
| England | 100% | 10,891 | 1:5,105 | 546 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 7,936 | 1:9,303 | 973 |
| Brazil | 100% | 7,350 | 1:29,148 | 2,453 |
| Finland | 100% | 6,389 | 1:858 | 199 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 5,744 | 1:4,114 | 873 |
| South Africa | 100% | 5,453 | 1:10,000 | 1,701 |
| Australia | - | 3,838 | 1:3,559 | 546 |
| Rwanda | - | 3,142 | 1:3,619 | 702 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 2,732 | 1:206 | 42 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 2,492 | 1:8,672 | 1,102 |
| Haiti | 100% | 2,256 | 1:4,755 | 677 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,527 | 1:3,504 | 401 |
| Italy | 100% | 1,402 | 1:43,554 | 1,264 |
| Chile | 100% | 1,259 | 1:13,985 | 909 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,248 | 1:3,635 | 589 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,166 | 1:26,426 | 3,414 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 1,003 | 1:30,112 | 2,161 |
| Senegal | 100% | 986 | 1:14,788 | 981 |
| Estonia | 100% | 825 | 1:1,594 | 362 |
| Ireland | 100% | 727 | 1:6,387 | 565 |
| Ghana | - | 674 | 1:40,039 | 2,307 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 661 | 1:15,781 | 1,607 |
| Spain | 100% | 652 | 1:71,365 | 2,438 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 644 | 1:32,297 | 3,883 |
| Congo | 100% | 597 | 1:8,391 | 1,129 |
| Hungary | 100% | 571 | 1:17,148 | 382 |
| Wales | 100% | 552 | 1:5,606 | 627 |
| Thailand | 100% | 547 | 1:128,091 | 9,906 |
| Morocco | - | 546 | 1:62,910 | 2,404 |
| Gabon | 100% | 481 | 1:3,915 | 840 |
| Mexico | 100% | 469 | 1:264,700 | 4,129 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 409 | 1:74,450 | 5,638 |
| Portugal | - | 397 | 1:26,224 | 1,139 |
| Mali | - | 331 | 1:51,292 | 2,831 |
| Suriname | 100% | 313 | 1:1,766 | 411 |
| Poland | 100% | 283 | 1:134,371 | 2,707 |
| Malta | - | 273 | 1:1,573 | 323 |
| Mauritius | - | 271 | 1:4,789 | 769 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 266 | 1:142 | 29 |
| Greece | 100% | 259 | 1:42,218 | 1,558 |
| Kenya | - | 258 | 1:179,485 | 7,562 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 252 | 1:32,350 | 3,220 |
| French Polynesia | - | 232 | 1:1,198 | 265 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 217 | 1:1,245 | 280 |
| Malawi | 100% | 212 | 1:80,718 | 4,695 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 208 | 1:22,923 | 1,466 |
| Greenland | - | 205 | 1:275 | 52 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 178 | 1:10,355 | 772 |
| Namibia | - | 177 | 1:13,583 | 1,458 |
| Iraq | 100% | 159 | 1:220,238 | 3,644 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 148 | 1:108,841 | 2,294 |
| Czechia | 100% | 139 | 1:76,663 | 1,024 |
| Singapore | 100% | 138 | 1:45,558 | 6,650 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 137 | 1:112,583 | 7,928 |
| Benin | 100% | 134 | 1:78,924 | 5,324 |
| Bahrain | - | 133 | 1:10,140 | 1,551 |
| Indonesia | - | 123 | 1:2,097,266 | 106,335 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 121 | 1:190,710 | 9,614 |
| Peru | 100% | 120 | 1:264,929 | 6,141 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 109 | 1:66,393 | 2,099 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 108 | 1:170,180 | 7,993 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 99 | 1:1,574 | 402 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 86 | 1:276,392 | 21,084 |
| India | 100% | 84 | 1:14,462,833 | 382,462 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 79 | 1:43,388 | 1,681 |
| Qatar | 100% | 77 | 1:30,774 | 4,184 |
| Brunei | - | 76 | 1:5,521 | 567 |
| Croatia | 100% | 73 | 1:57,768 | 1,848 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 69 | 1:51,454 | 1,415 |
| China | - | 65 | 1:21,016,243 | 60,436 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 61 | 1:2,910,891 | 51,245 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 56 | 1:127,714 | 9,216 |
| Panama | 100% | 55 | 1:71,028 | 4,055 |
| Hong Kong | - | 52 | 1:149,091 | 3,059 |
| Aruba | - | 50 | 1:2,076 | 432 |
| Ecuador | - | 49 | 1:361,774 | 4,580 |
| Argentina | 100% | 46 | 1:929,853 | 5,018 |
| Uganda | 100% | 45 | 1:910,154 | 16,462 |
| Guernsey | - | 42 | 1:1,508 | 269 |
| Seychelles | - | 39 | 1:2,376 | 540 |
| Jersey | - | 38 | 1:2,631 | 424 |
| Sudan | - | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 34 | 1:25,620 | 1,465 |
| Colombia | 100% | 31 | 1:1,541,256 | 14,557 |
| Israel | 51% | 31 | 1:271,062 | 7,224 |
| Romania | 100% | 30 | 1:668,399 | 18,240 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 29 | 1:46,945 | 4,279 |
| Guam | - | 28 | 1:5,737 | 966 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Barbados | - | 27 | 1:10,733 | 1,111 |
| Iceland | 100% | 25 | 1:14,641 | 1,158 |
| Bermuda | - | 24 | 1:2,701 | 544 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 23 | 1:2,295,144 | 22,303 |
| Jamaica | - | 22 | 1:131,056 | 5,047 |
| Japan | - | 22 | 1:5,817,548 | 29,011 |
| Zambia | - | 22 | 1:720,672 | 13,846 |
| Russia | 93% | 21 | 1:6,868,272 | 29,833 |
| Turkey | 100% | 21 | 1:3,704,843 | 19,450 |
| Monaco | 100% | 20 | 1:1,923 | 383 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 18 | 1:334,352 | 6,829 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 17 | 1:10,460 | 1,408 |
| Botswana | - | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 15 | 1:6,626 | 1,171 |
| South Korea | 100% | 14 | 1:396,030 | 11,136 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 14 | 1:7,839 | 1,133 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 13 | 1:432,890 | 5,953 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 12 | 1:2,718,626 | 20,989 |
| Belize | 100% | 12 | 1:29,526 | 2,824 |
| Guyana | 100% | 11 | 1:69,387 | 5,899 |
| Oman | - | 10 | 1:410,867 | 4,770 |
| Gambia | - | 9 | 1:214,066 | 587 |
| Gibraltar | - | 9 | 1:3,793 | 625 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 9 | 1:6,074 | 908 |
| Samoa | - | 9 | 1:21,688 | 450 |
| Swaziland | - | 9 | 1:144,464 | 1,815 |
| Vanuatu | - | 9 | 1:29,088 | 709 |
| Niger | 100% | 8 | 1:2,397,999 | 27,433 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 8 | 1:11,577,889 | 4,258 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 5 | 1:9,825 | 1,060 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| El Salvador | - | 4 | 1:1,585,446 | 8,153 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Grenada | 100% | 4 | 1:27,031 | 2,323 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 4 | 1:48,589,420 | 158,924 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Ukraine | - | 4 | 1:11,374,977 | 14,813 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Cambodia | - | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Cuba | - | 3 | 1:3,835,517 | 8,849 |
| Nepal | - | 3 | 1:9,495,784 | 71,056 |
| Syria | - | 3 | 1:6,435,358 | 7,086 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Belarus | - | 2 | 1:4,741,192 | 16,466 |
| Bhutan | - | 2 | 1:412,464 | 4,948 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Guinea | - | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Honduras | - | 2 | 1:4,408,734 | 23,808 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Jordan | 100% | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Liberia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,206,030 | 27,695 |
| North Macedonia | - | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Montenegro | - | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| San Marino | 100% | 2 | 1:16,460 | 588 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 2 | 1:290,478 | 6,813 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lesotho | - | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 1 | 1:2,324 | 291 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
The alternate forms: Marianné (13) & Mariannë (1) are calculated separately.
Marianne (2,740) may also be a surname.
Marianne Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Marion was originally a diminutive in -on of Mary (q.v.). It was common in the Middle Ages and later (cf. the surnames Marion, Maryan, Marrian, &c.). The spelling Marian led in the 18th C to the supposition that the name was really Mary + Anne, and Mary Ann was the first and chief of the double names which were so common then and in the early 19th C (e.g. Mary Jane, Jane Ann). The French Marianne, a later diminutive of Marie, is also sometimes used in England.
Marion Yorks Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379, Feudal Aids 1402.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Hebrew, ‘bitter grace.’ literally, Mary Anne.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Sometimes corrupted from Marian; at other times from Mary Anne.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
A Hebrew name, meaning: Bitter grace: of or pertaining to Mary.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Marianne Forename Popularity
Marianne Demographics
Marianne Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Sample size: 1,745 (1901)
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Phonetically Similar Names
Marianne Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Marianne in the Russian language | ||
| Марианне | marianne | - |
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