Marika — #13632 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Marika

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,292 babies named Marika between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marika currently holds the #13632 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 96 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marika performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 652 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Marika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 347 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Marika in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marika 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 2,292 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.