Mariel

Mary +‎ -el

Mariel

1. A female given name
2. A city and bay in northwest Cuba.
3. The Mariel boatlift, when some 125,000 Cubans entered the United States.

Mariel (plural Mariels)

1. Someone who arrived in the US during the Mariel boatlift; a Marielito. [from 20th c.]
   • 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 34:

     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 […] .

• Mariele, Mariela, Mariella, Marielle, Mariell

• Muriel

• Elmira, Mailer, mailer, remail

Mariel

1. Mariel (a municipality of Artemisa Province, Cuba)
2. a female given name

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mariel.

• IPA^(key): /maˈɾjel/ [maˈɾjel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: Ma‧riel

Mariel ?

1. A town in Artemisa, Cuba
2. a female given name