Maritta
Maritta was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,414 among girls’ names; 126 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maritta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maritta mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Maritta is “a female given name, variant of Marita”
Variant of Marita.
/ˈmɑritːɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maritta?
#16,414 among girls’ names, 2025
Maritta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,414 in 2025.
9 babies in 2020, the peak
Maritta peaked in 2020, when 9 girls were given it, #10,811 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,414 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,627 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,825 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,811 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,123 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,061 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,752 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,138 | 4.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,414 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,248 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | #7,185 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,025 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,230 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,351 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,666 | 3.9 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,981 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,830 | 5.8 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,718 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,099 | 5.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,126 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maritta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maritta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maritta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maritta, and how old are they?
An estimated 95 Americans named Maritta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Maritta (260 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 82 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,870 babies since 1880, Maritta is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 160 babies (3.1%), the fifth most given that year.
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.
More about Maritta and names like it
- Compare Maritta and MartaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaritta peaked in 2020.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Maritta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Maritta.
- Names starting with MMost given first.