Given name

Maricris

Maricris is a feminine given name from Spanish. It is used in Tagalog.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Maricris comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Filipino usage, Maricris is a diminutive of Maria Cristina.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Maricris through the years

Babies since 1880
33
0 boys · 33 girls
Most popular year
1982
10 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
024620002025Highest share 19820.0
Maricris in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1982–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 813 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.

Maricris’s family of names

In Filipino usage, Maricris is a diminutive of Maria Cristina.

Walk Maricris’s family in the name graph

MaricrisMarycrisMarikrisMaricrysMariaMaricrissMaria Cristina

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 3

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Maricris

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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