Marico
Marico was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 399 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marico by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marico?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,341, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1979, the peak
Marico peaked in 1979, when 18 boys were given it, #2,643 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #13,341 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,594 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,376 | 3.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,752 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,828 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,285 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,395 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,191 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,066 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,918 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 8 | #7,597 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,675 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,027 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,314 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,756 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,160 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,147 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,244 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,141 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,569 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,391 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,814 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,451 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,149 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,993 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,593 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,546 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,418 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,847 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,047 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,643 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,749 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,510 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,187 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,578 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,248 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,147 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,757 | 8.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,179 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marico a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marico has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marico: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marico, and how old are they?
An estimated 376 Americans named Marico and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 31 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 395 people named Marico (38 women and girls, 357 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 379 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 246,754 babies since 1880, Marico is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,573 babies recorded by SSA was a Marico (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marico
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marico and names like it
- Compare Marico and MauriceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarico peaked in 1979.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marico since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Marico.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marico alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.