Given name & surname
Marjo
Marjo is a masculine given name. It is used in Finnish and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Marjo is a diminutive of Marja.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1935. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marjo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 201
- 0 boys · 201 girls
- Most popular year
- 1939
- 35 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 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 35 in 1939. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 320 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.
Marjo’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Marjo is a diminutive of Marja. Marjo has a related form in Marjorie.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 Marjo
- Marjo Matikainen-KallströmFinnish politician and cross-country skier (born 1965)
- Marjo VoutilainenFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1981
- MarjoCanadian singer-songwriterborn 1953
- Marjo van der KnaapDutch professor of pediatric neurologyborn 1958
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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