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Marika

A pet form of Maria, Hebrew at root. In Poland it stays uncommon and keeps fading: fewer girls get it now than during its high point back in the 2000s.

Marika Pronunciation

Marika is pronounced mah-REE-kah (/maˈrika/).

Alive in 2025
13,630
Newborns 2025
91
National rank
#320
Next name day
16 July
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What Marika means

Where Marika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Marika began life as a diminutive, a familiar shape given to the older name Maria. Maria itself travels back through Latin to the Hebrew Miriam, so the Hebrew root sits underneath even this shorter, warmer form.

The Polish gloss for Marika is gwiazda morza, star of the sea. That reading came later. Medieval scholars linked Maria to the Latin phrase stella maris, and the image of a star above the water attached itself to every form of the name, Marika included. The Hebrew origin and the sea-star meaning belong to different centuries.

On an official form at the urząd, Marika fills the given-name line without fuss. It is short. The name stands on its own while still pointing back to Maria behind it.

So Marika holds two things at once: a Hebrew root by way of Miriam, and the later Polish reading of gwiazda morza.

When Marika celebrates name day

Marika appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 16 July.

Next name day
16 July
Friday in 2027
Next one in 264 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Marika

1 in 1654 women in Poland is named Marika. 13,630 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #320 among female names.

People with the name Marika 2019 → 2025
13,630 +1,358 since 2019
2020 12,469 +197
2021 12,804 +335
2022 13,080 +276
2023 13,342 +262
2024 13,487 +145
2025 13,630 +143

Marika's popularity over time

91 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #258 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

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91 newborns with the name Marika in 2025
national rank #258 that year

Where parents choose Marika

Marika is most popular in Holy Cross, 73% above the national average (64 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+36%) and Pomeranian (+28%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Greater Poland, 34% and 23% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Holy Cross
    +73%
    1 in 866 babies
  • Łódź
    +36%
    1 in 1,102 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +28%
    1 in 1,169 babies
Chosen least
  • Podlaskie
    −34%
    1 in 2,268 babies
  • Greater Poland
    −23%
    1 in 1,939 babies
  • Silesian
    −16%
    1 in 1,778 babies

Marika as a middle name

Marika is a first name for 13,630 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2,543, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 178th, between Olimpia (2,548) and Ludmiła (2,526).

As a first name
13,630
As a middle name
2,543
first name 84% middle name 16%
Middle-name ranking women

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