Marjo

Girls' name

Possibly berry, through Marja

Marjo has been given to 201 babies in the U.S. since 1935. 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 1939, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Marjo, 1969

1 in 579,000

Marjo over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marjo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly berry, through Marja

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marjo means

Marjo belongs to the name family reached through Marjo → Marja. Its meaning is “berry”.

Origin, language, and formation

Marjo is used in Albanian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marja.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Marjo is pronounced /ˈmɑrjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 201 girls were recorded with the name Marjo between 1935 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1939; its best national rank was #1,256 in 1939.

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 Marjo?

Marjo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969: 1 in 579,000; 6 of 3,475,126 births
Among girls only: 1 in 281,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1969: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 401,463 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marjo 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 1969 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 401,463 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marjo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marjos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marjo was born before 1944 — so the typical Marjo is around 81 today.

Median birth year: 1944; About 81 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 48.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 67; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Marjo 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1939 (35)
Years since peak: 86; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,256; 1939

Spellings of Marjo

Marjo is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 72.2% against Marjo's <0.01%.

Mary72.2%4,141,481
Maria9.9%566,111
Marie9.4%540,077
Marion3.3%189,218
Marla0.68%38,781
Margo0.47%27,208
Margot0.45%25,568
Mara0.42%24,038

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 Marjo is used

Across 1910–2025, Marjo was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 1,067,844 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1South Dakota1 in 100,000
2Texas1 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. Marjo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marjo 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: #1,256; 1939
Peak year: 1939; 35 that year
First recorded: 1935
Last recorded: 1969
All-time count: 201
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marjo

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

Marra Maral Mars Maraki Marien Marai Mariem Marzia Marjan Marea Marren Marsai Maryum Marwah Marit Marloe Marae Marce Marka Marny Maram Marieme Maryuri Marlia

Sibling names for Marjo

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

For a sister

Arleen Nedra Beverley Toby Annetta Jerilyn Carolynn Nelda

For a brother

Sherwood Rayford Ned Errol Carol Jerold Gail Huey

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