Comments for the name Mariel

This is soccer player Mia Hamm's first name. Her middle name is Margaret.

Mariel Hemmingway is an American actress. She is the granddaughter of Ernest Hemmingway and sister of Margaux Hemmingway.

Mariel Zagunis - Won the Gold Medal in Womens Sabre fencing at the 2004 Summer Olypmics.

I pronounce it MARY-ELLE, well it's my friend's name so actually she pronounces it like that. I think the name's okay, kind of cute but always reminds me of Muriel which is very ugly!

In one of the Redwall books there is a female heroine named Mariel. Her father was killed by Gabool the Wild, but when Gabool attacked her and threw her into the sea during a terrible storm she survived. The mousemaid lived on her own for many days, not remembering anything and deciding to name herself Storm Gullwhacker. She was lead to Redwall, where after hearing a poem, begins to have flashbacks, and remembers everything. During these flashbacks she remembers her father, and how they traveled together on a ship. Her father would say that her name was like the ringing of bells across an open field: "Mariel! Mariel!"

I love that! This name is one of my favourites, and I liked the book too, although I didn't finish it.

Mariel Zagunis- also won the Gold Medal in Womens Sabre Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Just this morning actually.

This is my name, and I just love it. ^___^
I think it's very pretty, although I do hate it when people say it like MARY-UHL. Ugh. And some pronounce it like MAHRY-UHL, which I don't understand. I agree with the person slightly above this comment, it's pronounced MARY-ELLE.

Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm (born 1972 in Selma, Alabama) is an American soccer player.