Marieli
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Meaning
a Brazilian name that may be a variant of Mariela; in Swiss German, an affectionate form of Marie
The story
Marieli is a name the record keeps two stories about, and we tell both. In Swiss German tradition it is a diminutive of Marie, the -eli ending being how Swiss dialects make things small and dear. In Brazil, where nearly all of its actual bearers live, the community record calls it, with an honest shrug, allegedly a variant of Mariela. What Brazil's census makes plain is the when: 6,341 women named Marieli, 43 born in the 1960s, 1,205 in the 1980s, 2,275 in the 1990s, 1,695 in the 2000s, the Maria family working through one more of its variations. The United States line is thin, 277 girls spread across the decades since the 1990s. Two continents, two explanations, one melody. Sometimes a name is less a settled fact than a tune that families keep finding new words for.
How popular is Marieli around the world?
In the United States, Marieli is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. At the 2022 census, 6,341 people in Brazil were named Marieli, ranked 2,324th, with a median age of 25.
Marieli is on the official records of the United States, Brazil and Spain.
United States
on record
In the United States, Marieli is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Marieli has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Brazil
1 in 32,000
At the 2022 census, 6,341 people in Brazil were named Marieli, ranked 2,324th, with a median age of 25.
Among people named Marieli living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 296 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Spain
1 in 2M
In Spain, 22 residents are named Marieli, ranked 29,233rd among women, with a mean age of 36 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Mexico City City
last on record 2021
Marieli is not on the 2022 record for Mexico City, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Montevideo City
last on record 1954
Marieli is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Not on the record in Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
The Marieli deep dive
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