Marika is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Marika in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Marika in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Marika by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Marika ranks at #9,034. That means there are 9,033 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Marika.
While Marika isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1993 the name Marika reached its highest popularity with #1,485 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Marika. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Marika.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marika was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 8 babies were born with the name Marika. This puts the name in rank 9,733 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 18,528,988 newborns was named Marika that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Marika has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Marika are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Marika is registered in 10 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Marika live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 42,977 would turn around if you called the name Marika across California.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Marika is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Marika and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marika, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marika
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
R
I
K
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
R
I
K
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marika sounds like this:
