Mariana

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I served a lady at work today who was wearing a necklace with Mariana on it and I thought 🤔 what a lovely name it was! Classic, different in the UK, not out there ,easy to spell and a choice of short versions Mari and Ana obviously, Maria and Riana also

Pretty name. DD has a friend called Mariama which is also a very pretty variation.

I like Marianne or Marina better

I would rather go for Marianne or Marianna because Mariana is a trench. although Marina is common yet it means harbour.

Wow, I pronounce it mara huana if I’m feeling posh or marawah-na if I’m feeling normal 😆 isn’t it funny how different words can be!!

Yes, the shorter vowels thing is regional. I've commented a few times on the -iana names because I think the aaah-nuh ending ruins the name (Lily vs Liliana etc)

Love it

Monica Dickens' Mariana is a lovely, hilarious novel that makes the name special for me too

Mari- ana , Mari-wana - very similar imo 🤷🏼‍♀️

María is Spanish slang for marijuana.

There are a million ways people can use a name to make fun of a kid on the playground.

I love the name Marianne, like one of the heroines in Sense and Sensibility. Marianna is also pretty.

Love it

I adore Mariana and I’m fairly bemused at people typing ‘marijuana’ and ‘marinara’ - it’s a fairly well known name and the previous comments just sound like a cringey dad joke rather than an actual concern / reason to not use the name!

You’ve never done that thing where you read a word/name for the first time and your mind automatically jumbles the letters slightly to find something familiar?

I find it odd myself when Mumsnetters do this. It is childish and annoying but if they say that’s what the name makes them think of …

It is up there with people who start singing a fairly well known song when they hear my name. Except it is not my name. Sigh.

@Spookypig , "cringey dad joke"? A bit sexist there.

@Spicycurry , but that is what it makes me think of, and others too if you read the thread. Marina is nice, but I think Morris Marina, or lots of boats.
Marie makes me think of Marie Osmond and a colleague's wife (both stunning so not a bad connection)

I am not seeing how cringey dad joke is sexist, it’s a fairly well known phrase. But we can replace it with cringey joke if it makes people more comfortable. The meaning is the same though, it’s that forcing humour that actually is not funny at all. Linking names to someone well known - like if someone says Cheryl I do think Cole or similar - isn’t the same thing as saying a name sounds like another unrelated word because it starts with the same letter and has the same number of syllables. Otherwise we’d have threads of ‘what do you think of William? Oh hur hur hur it makes me think of mud because it sounds like Wellington.’

Not funny. Give up. 😐

I think it's lovely OP but it's quite a mouthful so be prepared for it to get shortened by her friends at school

I like Mariana, it's really pretty. Personally I prefer it to Marina or Marianne. I like Marian too.

I know a Marian

Love of my life!
I will never leave you.
You haunt my mind
Wherever you are!

watch the YouTube video of the song by the Gibson Brothers. Love it! 👊

I know a Marianna and a Marianne (adults). Neither like their names and both go by Maz. I think some adult women find it a bit too frilly(?) for their personalities.

I've never met a British Mariana but I'm aware it is fairly common in several European countries like Portugal and in Latin America. I think these associations are quite a leap. People here don't really use the term marijuana anyway - it would be cannabis or just weed.

It's 'marry-ahna' surely, not 'Marie - anna'?
Nice name and quite unusual in the UK. There's a character named Mariana in Shakespeare (Measure for Measure?) and based on that, a poem by Tennyson.

I do like it, but I prefer Marianne overall.

This is one of my very favourite names. If I had had a DD she would have been Marianna. Nicknames could be Mari, Annie, possibly Mimi.

In my case Maria and Anna are both family names used several times on my side. I wouldn't have given her a middle name, just Marianna + my maiden name + my/DH's surname.

I saw a journalist on TV the other night called Marianna Spring, and thought that was a really amazing name.

That's Marianna though (marry-anna) so slightly different to the name the OP is asking about, which is Mariana (marry-ahna).

It’s a lovely name. Recognizable but not at all overused in the uk and lots of options for nicknames. Works for a baby and an adult.

Also I don’t get how the Mariana Trench is a bad association. It’s the deepest part of the ocean, mysterious, impressive. What’s the issue with that?