Girls' name · since 1934
Maritta
126 babies named Maritta in U.S. Social Security records since 1934, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #24,602 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,133 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 126
- born since 1934
- 2020s
- peak decade
Maritta currently ranks #15133 among girls' names in America, with 126 babies recorded since 1934.
Maritta has 126 recorded births among girls since 1934, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15133 as of the latest data, more common than 13% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1934 to 2025.
- #24,602 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,133 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 126 born since 1934
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maritta ranks #24,602 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,133 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 126 born since 1934, peaking in the 2020s.
- #24,602 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,133 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 126
- born since 1934
- 2020s
- peak decade
Maritta's 126 recorded births place it above 65.95% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Maritta compares
126 29th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Maritta's all-time total is 66% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Maritta | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 126 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Maritta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Maritta's full recorded timeline at 1963, 46% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 54% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1962, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2020 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Maritta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1934–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 92 years of records
Maritta by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (25 births, 20% of the file).
2020s was Maritta's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 20% of all-time use.
Maritta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s
1930s
19 births
- 1940s
1940s
14 births
- 1950s
1950s
22 births
- 1960s
1960s
23 births
- 1970s
1970s
13 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 25 births (20% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1934–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maritta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.