# Marietta (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/marietta/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˌmɛɹiˈɛtə/, 4 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15,055 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 15,055 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 45, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Italian Marietta. By surface analysis, Maria /Marie /Mary + -etta. Piecewise doublet of Mariette.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 6,070 |
| 2012 | 17 | 7,350 |
| 2013 | 24 | 5,599 |
| 2014 | 28 | 4,981 |
| 2015 | 27 | 5,069 |
| 2016 | 34 | 4,317 |
| 2017 | 32 | 4,449 |
| 2018 | 26 | 5,097 |
| 2019 | 31 | 4,507 |
| 2020 | 42 | 3,584 |
| 2021 | 31 | 4,471 |
| 2022 | 34 | 4,268 |
| 2023 | 31 | 4,524 |
| 2024 | 30 | 4,628 |
| 2025 | 41 | 3,684 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## People named Marietta

- Marietta Blau, Austrian nuclear physicist (1894–1970)
- Marietta Bonfanti, American ballet dancer (1845–1921)
- Marietta Stow, American politician (1837-1902)
- Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, Attorney General of Ghana
- Marietta Slomka, German journalist
- Marietta Canty, American actress (1905-1986)
- Marietta Marich, American actress (1930-2017)
- Marietta Holley, American author
- Retta, American comedian
- Etta Federn-Kohlhaas, German and French literary critic, writer and translator (1883-1951)
- Pokwang, Filipino actor, comedian and singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.