Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Marijo isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marijo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,281
- 0 boys · 1,281 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 54 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 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 54 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,270 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.
Marijo’s family of names
In Croatian usage, Marijo has a conventional equivalent in the German form Marius. In Croatian usage, Marijo has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Mário.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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 Marijo
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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