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Marijo

Girls' name

Form of Marius

Marijo has been given to 1,281 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1957, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Marijo, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marijo: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Marius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marijo means

Marijo is a form of Marius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marijo is used in Croatian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marijo → Marius → 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 Marius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,281 girls were recorded with the name Marijo between 1923 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1957; its best national rank was #1,392 in 1952.

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 Marijo?

Marijo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marijo 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marijo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marijos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marijo was born before 1957 — so the typical Marijo is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
956
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1950s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (401).

Is Marijo 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (54)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,392
1952

Spellings of Marijo

Marijo is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 31.5% against Marijo's 0.07%.

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 Marijo is used

Across 1910–2025, Marijo was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 313,423 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Iowa1 in —
  5. 5Minnesota1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Marijo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marijo around the world

Where Marijo 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.

  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marijo 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,392
1952
Peak year
1957
54 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
1,281
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marijo

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

MarenaMarikoMartieMareliMaryanMarkieMarineMarlinMarayaMarilyMarlowMarleiMaryahMariluMariyaMarielyMarelyMarlinaMarlenyMarysolMariskaMarlyMarlynnMaram

Sibling names for Marijo

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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