Mariona
Maria Francesca Caldentey Oliver, known as Mariona Caldentey, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Women's Super League club Arsenal and the Spain national team. Prior to moving to the English side, Caldentey played for Barcelona, making 305 appearances, scoring 115 goals and winning 25 trophies during her 10-year stay at the club.
- Catalan
Meaning & Origin of Mariona
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Maria Francesca Caldentey Oliver, known as Mariona Caldentey, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Women's Super League club Arsenal and the Spain national team. Prior to moving to the English side, Caldentey played for Barcelona, making 305 appearances, scoring 115 goals and winning 25 trophies during her 10-year stay at the club.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Catalan
The Story of Mariona
Mariona first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1996, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2005: 22 births, good for #5,600 nationwide. About 51% of every Mariona on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Mariona last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 272 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Mariona
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About the name Mariona
Mariona is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1996 and has accumulated 272 births in the dataset. Mariona's peak popularity came in 2005 when it ranked #5,600. Use the chart and map above to compare Mariona's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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