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Marica Marica — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-reet-sa /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Bitter / sea (Macedonian-Croatian + Marica River)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Macedonian)

A name that means "bitter / sea (macedonian-croatian + marica river)".

Marica is one of the Macedonian + Croatian + Bulgarian feminine names — central to traditional South Slavic Orthodox + Catholic heritage. Macedonian feminine name reflecting Balkan Indigenous heritage.

Bitter / sea (Macedonian-Croatian).

The name in its native script.

Марица
Transliteration
Marica
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.rɪ.tsə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marica stands.

Marica does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Maricas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Maritsa / Marica River
Longest river of Balkans + Battle of Maritsa 1371 + Bulgarian national anthem Mila Rodino.

Names connected to Marica.

The number behind Marica.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marica reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.