Entry № 6483 · Latin origin

Marian Marian — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAIR-ee-an /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Of Mary"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "of mary".

Marian is a compound name combining Mary (Hebrew Miriam) and Anne (Hebrew Hannah) — like Mariana but with the English pronunciation. The name appears in the medieval English ballads of Robin Hood, where Maid Marian is Robin's beloved.

Marian was hugely popular in the early 20th century, peaking at #66 in 1928. Today Marian sits outside the top 1000 but is quietly returning.

Of Mary. Maid Marian.

The name in its native script.

Marian
Transliteration
Marian
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛr.i.ən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marian stands.

Marian does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Marians before her.

Real people
Marian Anderson
American contralto and civil rights icon.
1897 – 1993
Marian McPartland
British-American jazz pianist.
1918 – 2013
In fiction
Maid Marian
Robin Hood's beloved in the English ballads.
Medieval English ballads

Names connected to Marian.

The number behind Marian.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marian reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.