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Marica

Girls' name

Diminutive of Marija

Marica has been given to 924 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Marica, 2005

1 in 641,000

Marica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marica: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Marija

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marica means

Marica is a diminutive of Marija.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marica is used in Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Hungarian and Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɒ.ri.t͡sɒ/ for Marica.

Origin, language, and formation

Marica is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marija.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 924 girls were recorded with the name Marica between 1938 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1974; its best national rank was #2,374 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marica?

Marica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 641,000
6 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
444,107 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maricas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marica was born before 1975 — so the typical Marica is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
857
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1970s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (229).

Is Marica rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (33)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,374
1974

Spellings of Marica

Marica is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 14.9% against Marica's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marica is used

Across 1910–2025, Marica was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,436,716 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marica around the world

Where Marica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2008
    #4,524
    in 2008
  • France
    1956–2013
    #7,858
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #2,443
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1954–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marica by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,374
1974
Peak year
1974
33 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
924
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marica

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Marica

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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