Marivel
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Marivel by the numbers
Marivel was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 87 babies in 1981, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Marivel
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Marivel. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Maribelof the sea and beautiful; blend of Maria and Isabel130 in the US (2017)
- Marielof the sea; a form of Mary or Muriel124 in the US (2017)
- Marieof the sea; beloved; form of Mary453 in the US (2017)
- Marisolsea and sun250 in the US (2017)
- Marielaof the sea; diminutive of Maria120 in the US (2017)
- Maricelaof the sea; a form of Marcella60 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Marivel
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