Marikay
Marikay was last recorded in 1969, when 7 babies were given it; 212 Americans have been recorded with it between 1940 and 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marikay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marikay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,354, in 1969; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1958, the peak
Marikay peaked in 1958, when 17 girls were given it, #2,927 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 7 | #6,354 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,120 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,386 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,407 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,136 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,633 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,761 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,350 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,554 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,927 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 8 | #4,774 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,537 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,603 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,517 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,868 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,135 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,636 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,191 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,740 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,471 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,606 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,564 | 5.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,934 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,052 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,791 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marikay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marikay has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marikay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marikay, and how old are they?
An estimated 162 Americans named Marikay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 65 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 248 people named Marikay (246 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 178 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above 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).
How common is the spelling Marikay?
Marikay is a less common spelling of Marykay: SSA has recorded 212 Marikay and 937 Marykay since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,945 babies since 1880, Marikay is the sixth most given (3.6% 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 Marikay
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 Marikay and names like it
- Compare Marikay and MarykayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMarikay peaked in 1958.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marikay since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Marikay.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marikay alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.