Mariani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: masculine plural of mariano
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/mariani/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mariani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 8.6K
- UYUruguay1 in 9.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)masculine plural of mariano
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mariani counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Mariani | 90 |
| AR Argentina | #693 | 5,296 | 1 in 8.6K | 5.3K | Mariani | 89 |
| US United States | — | 4,573 | 1 in 73K | 4.6K | Mariani | 161 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 3.1K | Mariani | 131 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 389 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 445 | 1 in 19K | 445 | Mariani | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 361 | 1 in 9.4K | 361 | Mariani | 24 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mariani is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do nome lat. Marianus, derivado de Marius; também hab. de Mariano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Finnish, first-person singular possessive form of partitive singular of mari
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of mariānus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Angelo Marianib. 1821ITItalian opera conductor and composer (1821–1873)
- Angelo Marianib. 1838FRFrench chemist (1838–1914)
- Edoardo Marianib. 1893ITItalian footballer (1893-1956)
- Orazio Marianib. 1915ITItalian sprinter (1915–1981)
- Amos Marianib. 1931ITItalian footballer and manager (1931-2007)
- Carlo Maria Marianib. 1931ITItalian painter (1931-2021)
- Felice Marianib. 1954ITItalian Olympic judoka
- Thierry Marianib. 1958FRFrench politician
- Marco Marianib. 1968ITItalian ice hockey player, curler and coach
- Maurizio Marianib. 1982ITItalian association football referee
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.3K | #2,146 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,287 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.1K | #7,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,831 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 605 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 445 | #2,934 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 389 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 361 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mariani mean, and where does it come from?
- masculine plural of mariano Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mariani?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /mariani/; in Indonesian /mˌariˈani/; in Italian /mariani/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mariani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Mariani in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariani.
- How common is the name Mariani?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 5,296 people named Mariani, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Mariani compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Mariani is the 693rd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marianiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mariani” — the 693rd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.