Marilla
About Marilla
Marilla is a names that's familiar via its resemblance to Mary and variations, but also distinctive: It hasn't been on the Top 1000 since the 1800s and was given to only 27 baby girls last year.
Delicate and sweet, Marilla might be seen as a Latinate form of Maria or a short form of the flower name Amaryllis. Marilla Cuthbert was a character in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
Not heard much since the 1880s, Marilla could make a distinctive alternative to Marissa.
As of October 2026, Marilla ranked #8167 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #787 in 1882.
Editor's take: The name Marilla is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "shining sea".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | #4,984 | 27 | 16.5 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Marilla on lists
Famous Marillas
- Marilla Marks Young Ricker
American suffragist
- Marilla Waite Freeman
American pioneering librarian
- Marilla Guss
Australian skier
Marilla in pop culture
- Marilla Cuthbert and Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe
characters in the "Anne of Green Gables" series
- Marilla Rowens
widow in "Elsie Verner" (1861) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Marilla Brown
character on TV's "Designing Women"
- Marilla
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