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Mariska

#10,603 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Maria

Mariska has been given to 1,019 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #10,603 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Mariska, 2025

1 in 368,000

Mariska over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariska: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mariska means

Mariska is a diminutive of Maria.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mariska is used in Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and Mária.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Mariska is pronounced [ˈmɒriʃkɒ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,019 girls were recorded with the name Mariska between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 107 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,933 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,812 in 2020 to #10,603 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,674 in 2015 to #10,603 in 2025.

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 Mariska?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,603
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariska 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariska. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariskas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariska was born before 2009 — so the typical Mariska is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,019
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Choose a decade

2000s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (474).

Is Mariska 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
−1,267
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,791
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,929
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.4%
Peak was 2007 (107)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,933
2007

Spellings of Mariska

Mariska is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 48.8% against Mariska's 0.09%.

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 Mariska is used

Across 1910–2025, Mariska was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 430,142 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Minnesota1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Mariska has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mariska around the world

Where Mariska 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
    2005–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • France
    1925–2019
    #7,096
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2014
    #2,567
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1971–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Mariska by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,603
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,791
Best rank ever
#1,933
2007
Peak year
2007
107 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,019
Count in 2025
9

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

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Sibling names for Mariska

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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