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Marieke

Girls' name

Diminutive of Maria

Marieke has been given to 119 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1990, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Marieke, 2005

1 in 481,000

Marieke over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marieke: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marieke means

Marieke is a diminutive of Maria.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marieke is used in Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /maː.ˈri.kə/ for Marieke.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marieke → Maria → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Marieke is pronounced /maːˈri.kə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 119 girls were recorded with the name Marieke between 1973 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1990; its best national rank was #6,427 in 1973.

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 Marieke?

Marieke 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 481,000
8 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
333,081 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marieke 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 333,081 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marieke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariekes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marieke was born before 1987 — so the typical Marieke is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
119
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Marieke 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 1990 (9)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,427
1973

Spellings of Marieke

Marieke is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 73.6% against Marieke'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.

Marieke around the world

Where Marieke 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
    1996–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • France
    1970–2016
    #7,254
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1980–1986
    #667
    in 1986

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.

Marieke 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
#6,427
1973
Peak year
1990
9 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
119
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marieke

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

MarsaliMaripazMarittaMarialyMarianyMarlayaMariellMarianiMaryoriMarlaniMaryuriMariemeMarielizMarieliMarrenMarsaiMarloeMariyanaMarializMarliaMarziaMarliyahMariyamMariame

Sibling names for Marieke

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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