Maricruz
Maricruz was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,740 among girls’ names; 2,917 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,840 Americans named Maricruz and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maricruz by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maricruz?
#7,740 among girls’ names, 2025
Maricruz fell from #5,066 in 2015 to #7,740 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 8.7 per million.
169 babies in 1990, the peak
Maricruz peaked in 1990, when 169 girls were given it, #1,054 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,740 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,761 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,502 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,851 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,342 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,249 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,924 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,967 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,598 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,734 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,066 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,419 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,248 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,196 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,151 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,535 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,497 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,684 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,202 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,351 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,716 | 33.6 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,024 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 84 | #2,097 | 46.0 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,881 | 52.9 |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,055 | 45.5 |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,805 | 52.9 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,761 | 51.3 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,877 | 46.4 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,742 | 50.6 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,695 | 51.3 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,552 | 55.7 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,497 | 58.8 |
| 1993 | 124 | #1,340 | 68.5 |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,515 | 56.4 |
| 1991 | 137 | #1,239 | 73.1 |
| 1990 | 169 | #1,054 | 89.0 |
| 1989 | 101 | #1,454 | 54.8 |
| 1988 | 163 | #1,005 | 91.5 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,596 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,967 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,901 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,112 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,031 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,601 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,955 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,972 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,704 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,452 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,645 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,767 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,592 | 20.6 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,657 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,046 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,080 | 25.0 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,452 | 18.6 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,829 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,971 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,759 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,748 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,863 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,703 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,487 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,303 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maricruz a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maricruz has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maricruz: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maricruz, and how old are they?
2,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,917 Americans ever recorded as Maricruz. The median Maricruz alive today is 32 years old; half are between 24 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 6,162 people named Maricruz (6,134 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,776 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 394 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 993 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 239 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maricruz born?
The states with the most babies named Maricruz are California, Texas and Illinois, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,210 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 644 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Illinois | 113 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 48 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Mexico | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Maricruz is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maricruz is most over-represented in California: since 1962 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maricruz with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,353 babies since 1880, Maricruz is the most given (87% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maricruz
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maricruz and names like it
- Compare Maricruz and MarycruzBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaricruz peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maricruz since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Maricruz.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maricruz alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.