girls:
924 births since 1938
#4792 (16th percentile)
overall:
924 births since 1938
#6815 (12th percentile)
The name Marica is the #6,815 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 924 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 11.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,792 (16.1% percentile) for all time with 924 births since 1938.
Marica first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (first recorded for girls in 1938). Birth data for Marica is available in 63 out of the 68 years between 1938 and 2005. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Marica reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #718) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marica".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Marica. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Marica is pronounced as MAH-rih-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-REE-kuh, at 32.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 R IH0 K AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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