Mariska
Mariska was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,603 among girls’ names; 1,019 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Mariska and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mariska by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mariska mean?
Wiktionary, Hungarian section
Mariska is “a diminutive of the female given name Mária”
From Maris (diminutive of Mária) + -ka (diminutive suffix).
[ˈmɒriʃkɒ]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hungarian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mariska?
#10,603 among girls’ names, 2025
Mariska fell from #4,674 in 2015 to #10,603 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 5.6 per million.
107 babies in 2007, the peak
Mariska peaked in 2007, when 107 girls were given it, #1,933 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,603 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,336 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,894 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,509 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,336 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,812 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,602 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,847 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,282 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,489 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,674 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,515 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,054 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,300 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,714 | 37.0 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,606 | 39.4 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,771 | 35.4 |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,329 | 44.4 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,933 | 55.7 |
| 2006 | 95 | #2,077 | 50.0 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,986 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,959 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,981 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,747 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,657 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,621 | 5.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,924 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,235 | 5.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,312 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,332 | 6.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,352 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,517 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,451 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,495 | 5.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,567 | 3.0 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,077 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,096 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mariska a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mariska has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mariska: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mariska, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,019 Americans ever recorded as Mariska. The median Mariska alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,009 people named Mariska (1,007 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 940 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 274 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Mariska
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 Mariska and names like it
- Compare Mariska and MeahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMariska peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mariska since 1910.
- Hungarian namesWiktionary’s origin for Mariska: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Mariska.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mariska alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.