Given name & surname · also Portuguese and Spanish
Marciana
“dedicated to Mars, the god of war”
Marciana is a variant of Marcia. In Latin use, Marcia carries the interpretation “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Original LatinMarcianus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Marciana is a variant of Marcia. In Latin use, Marcia carries the interpretation “dedicated to Mars, the god of war.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Marciana comes from Portuguese and Spanish, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Latin usage, Marciana is a feminine form of MARCIANUS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marciana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 290
- 0 boys · 290 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,405 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,405 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 899 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marciana’s family of names
In Latin usage, Marciana is a feminine form of MARCIANUS. Marciana has a related form in Marcia. In Spanish usage, Marciana has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form MARCJANNA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marciana
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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