Marianna

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proper noun

A female given name from Italian.

Less commonScrabble 10

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A female given name from Italian.
    1 more example

    "Marnie?" she said slowly, reading the name on the cover. "But how did you know? Marian was always called Marnie-" ( - - - ) "She was called Marianna," Gillie said, "after her great-grandmother. Marnie was so pleased about that! And of course it is a lovely name. It had a Spanish sound about it too, which pleased the father."

    1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, pages 250, 265

Origin

  1. ItalianMarianna
  2. EnglishMarianna

From Italian Marianna.

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Marianna. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Marianna

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