The reason there was that incredible up and down spike in girls named Marian in the United States in 1954 was because Pope Pius declared 1954 to be a "Marian Year" in honor of the Virgin Mary. [noted -ed]
Marian van de Wal is a Dutch singer who represented Andorra at 2005 Eurovision with "La Mirada Anterior". She did not pass through to the finals though.
Marian Bayoff Ilitch is an American businesswoman, who is the co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza with her late husband, Mike Ilitch. Marian Bayoff was born in 1933 and raised in Dearborn, Michigan, the daughter of Macedonian immigrants.
I believe Sarah Jessica Parker has a little girl name Marian.
― Anonymous User 7/31/2013
2
The default female name for protagonist Hawke in the video game Dragon Age 2 is Marian.
― Anonymous User 2/2/2012
3
This was the real name of Scottish hero William Wallace's wife. In the movie "Braveheart," they changed it to Murron in order to separate the character from the English hero Robin Hood's wife.
In Meredith Willson's successful musical 'The Music Man,' the lead female is Marian Paroo, the town librarian and music teacher. On stage, she's been portrayed by Barbara Cook (in a Tony Award-winning performance) in the original 1957 Broadway production, Meg Bussert in the 1980 Broadway revival, and Rebecca Luker (in a Tony Award-nominated performance) in the 2000 Broadway revival. Shirley Jones played her in the 1962 film and Kristin Chenoweth in the 2003 TV film remake.
A famous bearer was American singer Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993). She's best known for her performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Easter Sunday in 1939.It is also the name of a humanitarian award named in her honor.
Marian Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was a 19th-century British writer, author of such works as "Middlemarch", "Adam Bede", and "Silas Marner".