Marieke
Marieke was last recorded in 2005, when 8 babies were given it; 119 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marieke by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marieke mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Marieke is “a female given name”
/maːˈri.kə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marieke?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,573, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1990, the peak
Marieke peaked in 1990, when 9 girls were given it, #8,944 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,573 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,672 | 3.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,762 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,639 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,870 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,510 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,944 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,754 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,888 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,449 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #11,760 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,672 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,839 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,231 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,375 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,178 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,983 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,427 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marieke a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marieke has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marieke: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marieke, and how old are they?
An estimated 115 Americans named Marieke and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 286 people named Marieke (282 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 116 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,440 babies since 1880, Marieke is the fourth most given (2.7% of them).
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 Marieke
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 Marieke and names like it
- Compare Marieke and MarikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMarieke peaked in 1990.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Marieke: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Marieke.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marieke alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.