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Marika

Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Marika has been given to 2,292 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1993, with 96 recorded.

Babies named Marika, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marika: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marika means

Marika belongs to the name family reached through Marika → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Marika is used in Albanian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish and Slovak and additional language sections.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mária, Maria and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Marika is pronounced [ˈmarɪka].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,292 girls were recorded with the name Marika between 1946 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 96 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,595 in 1993.

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 Marika?

Marika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marika 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marika was born before 1988 — so the typical Marika is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,279
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (652).

Is Marika 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 1993 (96)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,595
1993

Spellings of Marika

Marika is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 16.5% against Marika'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 Marika is used

Across 1910–2025, Marika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 124,574 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Marika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marika around the world

Where Marika 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2009–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    1993–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1943–2024
    #6,156
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2009
    #535
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Marika

People whose public names include Marika, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marika in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marika. Linked forms have their own page here.

MariaMarica

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marika 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
#1,595
1993
Peak year
1993
96 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,292
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marika

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

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Names with a curve like Marika

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marika, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Marika

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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