Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Marike 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 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marike through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 5 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 1983. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marike’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Marike is a diminutive of Maria. Marike has a related form in Marika. In Dutch usage, Marike has a conventional equivalent in the German form Maria.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Marike has relatives in 3 languages.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Marike
- Marike de KlerkFirst Lady of South Africa1937–2001
- Marike BokDutch painter (1943-2017)
- Marike SteinackerGerman athleteborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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