Mariana (given name) explained
Mariana is a feminine given name of Latin origin. The masculine equivalent is Marianus, which is derived from Marius. Marianus became Mariano in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.[1]
Nobles
Writers
Entertainers
- Mariana Aydar (born 1980), Brazilian singer
- Mariana Čengel Solčanská (born 1978), Slovak director
- Marianna Efstratiou (born 1962), Greek singer
- Mariana Levy (1966–2005), Mexican actress, singer, and television host
- Mariana Molina (born 1990), Brazilian actress
- Mariana Nicolescu (1948–2022), Romanian opera singer
- Mariana Ochoa (born 1979), Mexican singer and actress
- Mariana Popova (born 1978), Bulgarian singer
- Mariana Renata (born 1983), Indonesian actress
- Mariana Seoane (born 1976), Mexican actress, model, and singer
- Mariana Sîrbu (died 2023), Romanian violinist
- Mariana Todorova (born 1974), Bulgarian violinist
- Mariana Varela (born 1996), Miss Universe Argentina 2019 and Miss Grand Argentina 2020
- Mariana Ximenes (born 1981), Brazilian actress
Athletes
- Mariana Avitia (born 1993), Mexican archer
- Mariana Chirila (born 1964), Romanian distance runner
- Mariana Constantin (born 1960), Romanian artistic gymnast
- Mariana Díaz Oliva (born 1976), Argentinian tennis player
- Mariana Henriques (born 1994), Angolan swimmer
- Mariana Ohata (born 1978), Brazilian athlete
- Mariana Pajón (born 1991), Colombian cyclist
- Mariana Roriz (born 1980), Brazilian water polo player
- Mariana Simeanu (born 1964), Romanian middle-distance runner
- Mariana Simionescu (born 1956), Romanian tennis player
- Mariana Solomon (born 1980), Romanian triple jumper
Other people
- Mariana Becker (born early 1970s), Brazilian sports journalist and television reporter
- Mariana Bracetti (1825–1903), leader of the Puerto Rico independence movement
- Mariana Wright Chapman (1843-1907), American social reformer, suffragist
- Mariana Drăgescu (1912–2013), Romanian military aviator during World War II
- Mariana J. Kaplan, Mexican-American rheumatologist and physician-scientist
- Marianna Knottenbelt (born 1949), Dutch-Canadian photographer, architect and real-estate developer
- Mariana Kotzeva (born 1967), Bulgarian statistician and econometrician
- Mariana Loya (born 1979), American beauty queen
- Mariana Mazzucato, born June 16, 1968) Italian economist
- Mariana Pfaelzer (1926–2015), United States federal judge
- Mariana de Pineda Muñoz (1804–1831), martyr of Spanish liberalism
- Marianna Pineda (1925–1996), American sculptor
- Mariana Wolfner, American molecular biologist and geneticist
See also
Notes and References
- Hanks, Patrick, et al. (2002). The Oxford Names Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press; p. 819
