In 2025, 10 US girls were named Mariko, making it the 9,869th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,903 places from #11,772 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 8 girls named Mariko in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,878, reached in 1984. That year also had the most girls given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #12,582 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mariko in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 7 babies. In all, 1,326 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 481 babies named Mariko.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 79 US girls were named Mariko; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Marico, Maurico and Marrico are summarised on this page.