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Mariayee name meaning

“a local name of the goddess Mariamman”

Letters
8
Syllables
4
First letter
M
Origin
Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1940s: 7.9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s7.9%
1950s5.5%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: MTamil origin

Mariayee is a Tamil girl's name (மாரியாயி), a local name of the goddess Mariamman.

What does Mariayee mean?

A local name of the goddess Mariamman

In Malay: nama setempat bagi Dewi Mariamman

Sources (3)

About the name Mariayee

Mariayee is a spelling of māriyāyi (மாரியாயி), which the University of Madras Tamil Lexicon records as a local name for Mariamman, the Hindu goddess associated with rain and smallpox. It is made of māri and āyi, a Tamil word meaning 'mother' that is also used as a term of respect for women. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 311 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginTamil
SyllablesMa-ri-a-yee
First letterIndian Names starting with M
Tamil scriptமாரியாயி

Mariayee in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 163 · 7.9%
1950s
Girl: 311 · 5.5%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Mariayee as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Tamil Lexicon: மாரியாயி · dsal.uchicago.edu · meaning
  2. Tamil Lexicon: ஆயி · dsal.uchicago.edu · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: Mariamman · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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