Maryann’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Maryann
Maryann's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Maryann's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Maryann: meaning and origin
Maryann is a combination of Mary and Ann, says Behind the Name. Mary is the English form of Maria, from the Hebrew Miryam, and Ann is the English form of Anne, from Hebrew Hannah, “favor, grace.” Putting the two together makes a compound that has been used in English for generations. Behind the Name files it under English usage with the stress on the second half, mary-ANN.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Ann, Marian, Marianna, Marianne, Mary, Mary Ann, Mary Anne and Maryanne among the English relatives. Mary, Ann, Annie and Mari are easy everyday short forms. Marianne and Marianna show how other languages join the same pair.
Famous people named Maryann
Maryanne Amacher (1938 to 2009) is the best-known bearer under a near spelling. Wikipedia says the American composer and installation artist worked with psychoacoustic phenomena called auditory distortion products, in which the ears themselves produce audible sound, and that she was born in Kane, Pennsylvania. Her work with distortion-product otoacoustic emissions made listeners hear tones their own ears were creating.
Is Maryann a popular name?
Maryann is a mid-century compound. US Social Security data has it at 152nd in the 1940s, when more than 17,000 American girls were named Maryann. Behind the Name does not show a recent US ranking for this spelling. Compound Mary-names were especially fashionable in mid-century Catholic and Protestant families alike.
Maryann trivia
Maryann is one of several ways English joins Mary and Ann. Behind the Name also lists Mary Ann, Mary Anne and Maryanne, so the same two saints’ names can look formal with a space, hyphenated, or fused as Maryann. Choosing among those spellings is often a family tradition rather than a change of meaning.
Gift ideas that suit a Maryann
- For a family historian. A journal for grandparents, middle names and stories.
- For a music lover. A notebook for concerts and sound experiments.
- For Mother’s Day. A keepsake diary for two classic saints’ names.
- For Christmas. A holiday journal for Maryann.
How Maryann can use it
Any Maryann, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Maryann can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Maryann’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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