mariel means A female given name. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Etymology
From Mary + -el.
name
- A female given name.
- A city and bay in northwest Cuba.
- The Mariel boatlift, when some 125,000 Cubans entered the United States.
noun
- Someone who arrived in the US during the Mariel boatlift; a Marielito.“I happened to be in the coroner's office one morning when autopsies were being performed on the bodies of two Mariels, shot and apparently pushed from a car on I-95 about nine the evening before […].”