Fewer than five US girls were named Marika in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,597, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 96. For comparison, it was #18,185 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marika in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 7 babies. In all, 2,292 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 652 babies named Marika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 70 US girls were named Marika; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 13.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maria (570,389 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marykay, Marica and Maurica are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Estonian, Latvian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.