Marico — boys' name
399 babies named Marico in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Marico was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Marico in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marico
The Social Security Administration has registered 399 babies named Marico between 1970 and 2020, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marico currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marico performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Marico shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 87 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Marico in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marico in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 399 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Marico at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marico popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1970
- Peak year (1979)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
399 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 18 births in a single year.
Marico by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 124 births that decade — 31% of Marico's all-time total
Marico decade highlights
- Peak decade 124 births
- Runner-up 107 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Marico's strongest decade
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Marico by state
Where Marico concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Tennessee | | 87 | 21.8% |
87 of 399 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Tennessee 21.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Tennessee accounts for 21.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1970–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.