Given name & surname
Marica
Marica is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
Marica is an affectionate form of Maria. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Marica is an affectionate form of MARIJA.
The story
In mythological stories, Marica is associated with a nymph and mother of Latinus.
Marica through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 924
- 0 boys · 924 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,314 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marica’s family of names
Marica is an affectionate form of Maria. In Italian usage, Marica has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Marika. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Marica is an affectionate form of MARIJA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marica
- Marica Nadlišek Bartoleditor1867–1940
- Marica BodrožićGerman writerborn 1973
- Marica PerišićSerbian judokaborn 2000
- Marica BranchesiItalian astrophysicist (born 1977)
- Doamna Marica BrâncoveanuRomanian princess consort1661–1729
- Marica GajićBosnian basketball playerborn 1995
- Marica Andayón1764–1848
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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